“Ministries blending food and faith”
Read an Oct. 16, 2013, story from the Associated Baptist Press about increased interest among Christians in making sure their food choices and ministries reflect concern for the poor and the environment.
Category: Beliefs & practices
“‘Soil and Sacrament’ explores farming’s spiritual side”
Read a Dec. 17, 2013, National Catholic Reporter interview with Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.
Fred Bahnson
Fred Bahnson is director of the Food, Faith & Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. He co-founded a church-supported agriculture ministry in Cedar Grove, N.C., in 2005 and has taught regenerative agriculture for many years. Bahnson is the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and […]
Carla Woody
Carla Woody is the founding president of Kenosis Spirit Keepers, an Arizona-based nonprofit whose mission is to “honor and preserve the integrity of indigenous wisdom and sacred cultural practices by providing cross-cultural exchanges, education, and community-building opportunities.”
“Greener Bar Mitzvah”
Read the transcript of an Aug. 14, 2009, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly story on families who are using bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies that inculcate environmental values.
Jonathan Merritt
Jonathan Merritt writes and speaks extensively on faith and culture and is a senior columnist for Religion News Service. Merritt’s books include A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars and Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined. He can discuss the viewpoints and concerns of young evangelicals on a range of issues, especially on […]
“At inaugural Mass, Pope Francis calls for defending environment, poor”
Read a March 19, 2013, Religion News Service story about Pope Francis’ inaugural Mass. Among other things, he called for people in positions of power to be “protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”
Ellen F. Davis
Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, N.C. Davis has been in the vanguard among theologians studying the biblical understanding of care for the land, and she is a sought-after speaker on topics such as the ethics of land use. She is the author […]
“Ellen Davis unearths an agrarian view of the Bible”
Read an Oct. 28, 2013, Religion News Service story about theologian Ellen Davis, who for decades has been at the vanguard of those studying the biblical understanding of care for the land.