A learning resource for Christian leaders and theirRecently published
Learning the names of the plants around us is a Christian practice that invites us into loving, hope-filled care of the natural world, writes an associate director for LEADD’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.
Link to author Sarah E. Forsyth
The National Wildlife Federation’s Sacred Grounds program helps churches increase native plant gardens — thereby helping wildlife flourish and encouraging community connection.
Link to author Leslie Quander Wooldridge
More than just a space to grow food, the seminary garden serves as a hub for local gardeners and community activists pursuing racial and economic justice.
Link to author Chelsey D. Hillyer
Church leaders need to recognize the potential for new ministry at the intersection of food, agriculture, and discipleship, says an Episcopal priest who has compiled the first comprehensive guide to the Christian food movement.
Link to author Fred Bahnson
In a backyard garden at D.C.’s Church of the Pilgrims, God’s promise, the Holy One’s movement of liberation, is alive and buzzing in the form of 40,000 fat, furry honeybees, says the church’s associate pastor.
Link to author Ashley Goff
The co-author of a new book on reconciliation with the land reflects on a Brazilian community that models “abundant kingdom homesteading.”
Link to author Fred Bahnson
In this excerpt from “Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating,” a Duke Divinity professor argues that our work as Christians is to develop into godly gardeners, who witness to the life-creating presence of God in the world.
Link to author Norman Wirzba
God often is presented as father, judge, potter, redeemer or companion. How would believers’ thinking and speaking be transformed if God was described as a gardener?
Link to author Norman Wirzba
If the Earth is to continue to feed us, we must find better ways to “till it and keep it,” writes Fred Bahnson.
Link to author Fred Bahnson
