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By Jason Fowler on 08/02/2010
Despite what the title may infer, it is not just for farmers- it is for all of us who long for the coming shalom of GOD’s New Earth. He begins by inviting city dwellers to get their hands in God’s dirt…
Posted in Book Reviews, Features, Food & Agriculture, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agriculture, book, book review, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church gardens, Creation Care, environment, environment and faith, faith-based community garden movement, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, ragan sutterfield, Sustainable Agriculture, the agrarian mind, Wendell Berry |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 05/12/2010
There are many people who want to live like Shane Claiborne or Wendell Berry, but that would be a mistake. This is not to say that we should not learn from lives well lived—there are lots of things worth imitating—but we have to ask where God has called us and to what he has called us…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged authentic living, identity crisis, Jean Vanier, Shane Claiborne, Thomas Merton, Wendell Berry |
By Craig Goodwin on 03/10/2010
If I could impose my will on every American for the sake of the environment it wouldn’t be to change light bulbs or mandate carbon footprints. My mandate would be for every American to start a garden and grow their own food
Posted in Excerpts, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged food and faith, Gardening, gardening as a revolutionary act, The Art of the Common Place, Wendell Berry, Whole-life Christian faith |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 01/15/2010
Caitlin Flanagan recently created a stir with her article in The Atlantic criticizing school gardens. There have been some excellent rebuttals to Flannagan, but as I read the article I kept hearing Wendell Berry’s poetic character, “The Mad Farmer,”…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features | Tagged agriculture as education, Caitlin Flanagan, Education, School Gardens, Sustainable Agriculture, The Atlantic, Wendell Berry |
By Jason Fowler on 12/24/2009
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry |
By Wendell Berry on 12/11/2009
I know that one resurrected rural community would be more convincing and more encouraging than all programs of the last fifty years, and I think that it could be the beginning of the renewal of our country, for the renewal of rural communities ultimately implies the renewal of urban ones.
Posted in Food & Agriculture, Money & Economics | Tagged Community and Ecclesia, community renewal, E.F. Schumacher Society, local culture, localism, rural renewal, Wendell Berry |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 12/09/2009
Perhaps we should give up on making a living from our work and simply do it because we are called to it and offer our work to our neighbors as a free, gift just as we have received freely.
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Features, Money & Economics | Tagged gift economy, God's Economy, labor, money, Money & Economics, Wendell Berry |
By Bill Guerrant on 11/17/2009
Isn’t our culture’s commercialization of such a holy event every bit as profane as selling doves and changing money in the courtyards of the temple? I wonder what would happen if Jesus walked into an American mall…with songs proclaiming his birth being piped in to induce purchases.
Posted in Features, Money & Economics | Tagged Anti-Consumerism, christmas, economy, idolatry, money, Wendell Berry, worship |
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