By Rachel Stone Flourish, Spring 2012 Four years ago this month, on a brilliant Sunday afternoon, my husband drove our fourth-hand Volvo through the high road winding through the farmlands of Fife, in Scotland, while I alternately let out long, low, and loud noises and talked about the animals we passed. New lambs! I shrieked. [...]
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by Rusty Pritchard My friends know that I’m ambivalent about April 22. A handful of activists declared it Earth Day in 1970, and now it is one of the few “holidays” of wholly secular origin. It’s a confusing day for many people, because pondering the Earth and its benefits elicits feelings of gratitude. Unrooted in [...]
“But as we have come to rely more and more on the products of agriculture rather than the freely available food of the creation, most of us have ceased to take advantage of the bounty of fall. This is a mistake.”
The Rooted People conference: Conversations on the role of food and agriculture in the concrete jungle, and a special deal for Flourish readers.
[Ed. note: This article is part of our weekly series of church activities, called Cultivating Community, published on Thursdays.] Pakistan had already had a difficult summer by the time record amounts of monsoon rainfall deluged its several of its provinces and led to the humanitarian crisis currently debilitating the country. Pakistan’s government and military were [...]
To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of creation.
“Your church’s members have probably helped build a house for a deserving family. Now they can help build something much larger.”
Celebrate National Farmers Market Week with pictures from YOUR local market. Send your photos of fresh food and local faces to editor@flourishonline.org.
The global food crisis is closer to home than you think.
Roll with the punches of creation’s unpredictability, says farmer and writer Ragan Sutterfield. That’s faithful living.
“Food, Inc.” reveals what the food industry keeps secret.
Margaret Feinberg unearths surprises and blessings from the Bible’s pastoral texts through the testimony of those who live closest to the land.
