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Did We Love 'God Made a Farmer' Too Much?

Someday maybe we'll find the road between demeaning rural life and romanticizing the difficult reality of today's American farm.

Planting New Life in Detroit's Vacated Landscape

How Christians are spearheading the urban farming movement in Motor City.

Digesting Grace: Why the Food We Eat Matters to God

And why buying produce from our local CSA reminds me of this fact.

Tilling among the Tulips: Christians Sow Hope at a West Michigan Farm

Eighth Day Farm's founders believe local food will restore the land and bless its inhabitants.

Alternative Capitalist: How a Coffee Business Brews Reconciliation

Why Jonathan Golden helps farmers in Rwanda.

Hunger Strikes

Spike in food prices shifts attention to market access.

Pushing Back the Desert: Niger's Christians Get Creative for Daily Bread

'Give us this day our daily bread' is both a prayer and a project for Christians living in one of the world's poorest countries.

Local Is Beautiful

Bill McKibben believes we can thrive on a planet that will never be the same. A review of 'Eaarth.'

The Grim Realities of Factory Farms

A Feast Fit for the King

Returning the growing fields and kitchen table to God.

A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique

Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty.

'Hunger Can Be Conquered'

And, says former Wall Street Journal reporter Roger Thurow, churches have a crucial role to play.

Trees Of Life

How Floresta integrates development discipleship, and creation care overseas.

A Grounded Faith

Mexican ministry branches out beyond tree planting to bring healing to souls in a barren land.

Feeding Hope Under a Rogue Regime

Christian outreach to North Koreans helps to keep millions from starving.

Urban Orphans Learn to Farm

At the Lazarus Project, the list of prayer requests is long, but food comes first.

Hunger Isn't History

The world produces more food than ever. So why do nearly a billion people still not have enough to eat?

The Good Shepherds  Subscriber access only

A small but vigorous movement believes that in farming is the preservation of the world.

Weeping for the Jordan  Subscriber access only

Revered river endangered by pollution, overuse.

Crop of Concerns

Farm bill draws out Christian reformers worried about subsidies.

Famine Again?

Why some places suffer food shortages decade after decade.

Imagining a Different Way to Live

Wendell Berry is inspiring a new generation of Christians to care for the land.

Dining Dilemmas  Subscriber access only

How shall we then eat?

Politically Driven Injustice  Subscriber access only

Fixing global poverty requires more than Rick Warren's PEACE plan.

Growing Up at Koinonia  Subscriber access only

The focus of a PBS documentary, Koinonia Farm was the target of segregationists, a radical Christian community, and where Jim Jordan grew up.

Rediscovering 'Husbandry'  Subscriber access only

What Colonial farmers have to teach us about living with the land.

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