Food & Faith Links: Books, Authors & Blogs
It has struck me that the best way to compile these links would be in an online database which could be curated by multiple people and searched by multiple keywords, but that’s beyond my present capacity. Consider this a brain dump from me to you. And at the end, there’s a request: could you let me know what I’m missing?
I’m sure there is wonderful work happening in many different faiths, but since the focus of this blog is the work of the church, this link roundup focuses on Christian organizations and a few interfaith organizations. If you know of similar work happening in Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, or other faith traditions, please leave a link in the comments!
I’ll be posting links in a different category each day this week. Here’s the plan:
Monday: Faith-based farms and gardens integrating Christian spirituality or faith formation
Tuesday: Regional faith-based food initiatives
Thursday: Blogs, books & authors on food & faith
Friday: National non-profits working at the intersection of food & faith
If there is a project or person you want to be sure I include, feel free to contact me – or just leave it in the comments.
You’ll notice that church-based garden and feeding programs aren’t on the list. There are two reasons for this. First, there are so many that if I had included them, I would have been overwhelmed. Second, they are difficult to find through search engines – most are just a page of a larger church website. Maybe that’s a future list!
With no further ado… Thursday’s list.
Books & Authors
There are many, many secular books about food issues which are not faith-based. There are also many faith-based books that are about general environmental issues. This is a much smaller list of books written by Christians on the intersection of food, farming and faith. Feel free to add everything by Wendell Berry to this list. It’s in order by publication year. (Disclosure: some of these are affiliate links.)
Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating
by Norman Wirzba, 2007.
Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible
by Ellen Davis, 2008.
Food, Farming, and Faith (S U N Y Series on Religion and the Environment)
by Gary Fick, 2008.
Food & Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread
by Michael Schut, 2010.
by Craig Goodwin, 2011.
Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation (Resources for Reconciliation)
by Fred Bahnson and Norman Wirzba, 2012.
Farming As A Spiritual Discipline by Ragan Sutterfield, 2012
Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
by Fred Bahnson, 2013.
Eat with Joy: Redeeming God’s Gift of Food
by Rachel Marie Stone, 2013.
Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology
by Jennifer R. Ayres, 2013.
Cultivating Reality: How the Soil Might Save Us
by Ragan Sutterfield, 2013.
Blogs
What’s Up with Wheat by Episcopal priest Elizabeth DeRuff. This site also includes her downloadable publication “Stories of Food and Farm Ministries” available here.
+Earth Ed by Cindy Coe has a more general focus on environmental education from a spiritual basis but includes information about faith-based gardening. Coe is the author of the Episcopal Relief and Development’s Abundant Garden curriculum.
Presbyterian Food & Faith Blog is a blog of the Presbyterian Hunger Program (see more below).
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship wrote a series of posts in 2013 titled “At the Table: Baptists Fight Hunger” which highlight community gardening and agriculture ministries as well as food pantry and hunger ministries.
Sustainable Traditions is a conversation on whole-life discipleship to Jesus in the context of intentional living and often features work on the connections between food, farm, and faith.
What am I missing? What can you add?
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