Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith

Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith

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.

A POWERFUL, PERSONAL STORY OF HOW GROWING AND SHARING FOOD PULLS US CLOSER TO GOD

Like many seekers of the authentic life, Fred Bahnson sought answers to big questions like What does it mean to follow God? and How should I live my life? But after divinity school at Duke, Bahnson began to find answers not in a pulpit, but at the handle of a plow. After his agrarian conversion, Bahnson started a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina to help its members grow real food and to feed his own spiritual hunger.

Soil and Sacrament tells the story of how Bahnson and people of faith all over America are re-rooting themselves in the land, reconnecting with their food and each other, and praying with their very lives the prayer of the early Christian monks: â€œWe beg you, make us truly alive.â€ Through his journeys to four different faith communitiesâ€”Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Jewishâ€”Bahnson explores the conÂnections between spiritual nourishment and the way we feed our bodies with the sensitivity, personal knowledge, and insight shared by Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben.

Soil and Sacrament is a book about communion in its deepest senseâ€”an inspiring and joyful meditation on what grows above the earth, beneath it, and inside each one of us.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-08-06
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781451663303

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-08-06
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781451663303

Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith

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