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| Resource: | Books (610.3000) Soil and Sacrament : A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith |
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| Author: | Bahnson, Fred | |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster, 2013 | |
| Length: | 288 pages | |
| Heading: | 110 — Environment | |
| Subjects: | Biography-Religious; Christian Life; Environmental ethics; Environmental responsibility; Faith in Action/Lifestyles; Gardening / Religious aspects / Christianity; Nature Studies-General | |
| Location: | BV4596.G36 B34 2013 | |
| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9781451663303 | |
| Description: | FROM THE PUBLISHER: Part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, this moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace found in returning to the garden is inspiring and beautiful. After he graduated from Duke Divinity School, Fred Bahnson underwent an agrarian conversion. Trading the pulpit for the plough, Bahnson helped start a community garden in Cedar Grove, North Carolina, a town struggling under an unspoken racial divide. As Anathoth Community Garden slowly cultivates a new future as a progressive multi-racial society, Bahnson is likewise transformed from shy and self-effacing to a charismatic leader. His time at Anathoth becomes the impetus for a road trip spent visiting different faith-based agrarian groups, one for each season, from a community of Roman Catholic monks who pursue a life of contemplation while harvesting rare mushrooms on a Southern plantation, to a Jewish organic farm in the Berkshires, where he and other young people learn the agrarian arts of ancient Israel right in Connecticut. Recently appointed director of Wake Forest University School of Divinity's pioneering Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative, Bahnson is the perfect guide on this lyrical and inspiring journey. Through his travels across the country and into his own past, Bahnson comes to see how our yearning for real food is inextricably bound up in our spiritual desire to be fed” and discovers how rituals of cultivation can become a powerful source of community and purpose. DESCRIPTION: "Bahnson (Making Peace with the Land) is outstanding in his field. Now director of the Food, Faith, and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Bahnson has spent a lot of time in a lot of fields. He developed his field studies into essays of depth and inspiration, humility and, yes, frustration, for he is dealing with the earth and the fullness, or dratted emptiness, thereof. More specifically, he deals with soil (not dirt), a living organism that 'both craves life and wants to produce more life, even a hundredfold.' With Christians, he plants in Mepkin Abbey in South Carolina at Advent, plows the Lord's Acre in North Carolina at Eastertide, and fertilizes Tierra Nueva in Washington State at Pentecost; with Jews, he harvests during Sukkot at Adamah Farm in Connecticut. Like Anne Lamott's spiritual writing, Bahnson's essays introduce people of deep faith, imprisoned pasts, ticklish humor, and hope-filled vision, farmer/priests being church by feeding the hungry and praying in the dirt. Agent: Wendy Sherman, Wendy Sherman Associates Literary Management." Publishers Weekly Copyright Pwxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. |
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| Age Groups: | None specified. |
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