Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American Food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century.
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Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American Food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century.
Offering palpable scenes from the Sea of Galilee and the fields, orchards, and feasting tables that surrounded it, Nabhan contrasts the profound ways Jesus interacted with Those who were the workers of the field and the fishers of the sea with the events currently occurring in American farm country and fishing harbors.
Tapping the work of Middle Eastern naturalists, environmental historians, archaeologists, and agro-ecologists, Jesus for Farmers and Fishers is sure to catalyze deeper conversations, moral appraisals, and faith-based social actions in each of our faith-land-water communities.
Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of Those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us.
Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan--the father of the local Food movement--offers a fresh, imaginative look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into a heart of compassion for Those in the Food economy hit by this unprecedented crisis.
Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American Food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century.
Offering palpable scenes from the Sea of Galilee and the fields, orchards, and feasting tables that surrounded it, Nabhan contrasts the profound ways Jesus interacted with Those who were the workers of the field and the fishers of the sea with the events currently occurring in American farm country and fishing harbors.
Tapping the work of Middle Eastern naturalists, environmental historians, archaeologists, and agro-ecologists, Jesus for Farmers and Fishers is sure to catalyze deeper conversations, moral appraisals, and faith-based social actions in each of our faith-land-water communities.
Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of Those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us.
Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan--the father of the local Food movement--offers a fresh, imaginative look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into a heart of compassion for Those in the Food economy hit by this unprecedented crisis.
Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American Food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century
