Description: We are, at our base, humus-beings. Our lives are
dependent upon the soil and we flourish when we live in this
reality. Unfortunately, we have been a part of a centuries-long
push to build a new tower of Babel--an attempt to escape our basic
dependence on the dirt. This escape has resulted in ecological
disaster, unhealthy bodies, and broken communities. In answer to
this denial, a habit of mind formed from working close with the
soil offers us a way of thinking and seeing that enables us to see
the world as it really is. This way of thinking is called
agrarianism. In Cultivating Reality, Ragan Sutterfield guides us
through the agrarian habit of mind and shows Christians how a
theological return to the soil will enliven us again to the joys of
creatureliness. Endorsements: ""Like tenacious alfalfa roots, which
reach deep into the ground and transfer essential nutrients to the
soil's surface, Ragan Sutterfield digs deep into the subsoil of
agrarian thought, Christian faith, and his own experience as a
farmer, and brings up life-giving nourishment for all to share. In
this world of smartphones and dumbed-down culture, Cultivating
Reality points us toward those habits of mind that deepen our
relationship with the world, with God, and with each other. Here's
to 'the priesthood of all farmers' and 'the farmerhood of all
peoples.' Take this book, and eat."" --Fred Bahnson, author of Soil
and Sacrament: Four Seasons, Five Gardens, and the Search for a New
American Spirituality ""Sutterfield wants to cure our rapacious
apathy toward reality by infecting us with an agrarian mind. His
comprehensive argument exposes just how fantastical it is to ignore
food and farming as matters of faith. Like farming, this book is
also 'a dance of effort and grace'--at once conservingly creative,
strenuously imaginative, a disciplined and artful cultivation of
our capacity to recognize with equal clarity the idols eviscerating
us and the gifts by which we are sustained."" --D. Brent Laytham,
Dean of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology, St. Mary's Seminary
About the Contributor(s): Ragan Sutterfield is a writer, teacher,
and agrarian living in his native Arkansas. Ragan is the author of
Farming as a Spiritual Discipline, a contributor to the book Sacred
Acts: How Churches Are Working to Protect the Earth's Climate, and
the author of numerous articles on food, faith, and ecology. He
works to live the good life in partnership with his wife, Emily,
and daughter, Lillian.
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