Parish Farming Internship: A Prayerful Exploration of Food and Faith!
With Erin and Robert Lockridge
The media is saturated with talk of food, from healthy eating, organic gardening, and green living, to obesity, eating disorders, child hunger, and food safety. How do we, the people of the Church, participate in these conversations? Do we have a unique proclamation of hope?
In this class, we will journey together through the growing season, exploring, from within the framework of the Christian tradition, some of the biological, ecological, economic, cultural, and theological aspects of what, why, and how we eat. Reading and discussion will be rounded in the soil of our neighborhood gardens as we plant, tend, harvest, cook, preserve, pray, feast, fast, serve, and sweat together in the context of our West Norwood community. We pray that, through this class, God will cultivate within us an intimate thanksgiving for the sustenance of our lives and sow seeds of imagination among us and our respective church communities.
To quote our friends and professors, Loren and Mary-Ruth Wilkinson, “Eating is at once an ordinary act of our everyday existence, and perhaps the most profound way we are related to each other, to the created world, and to God.” We look forward to exploring, with our hearts, heads, and bodies, the depths of this mystery with you.
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This course will take place over weekend-sessions in March, May, July, September and November, 2014. Reading assignments and homework will be given to complete
between each session.
Following, are the class dates for 2014:
March: Thursday, 3.20, 6:00 p.m. — *Saturday, 3.22, 8:00 p.m.
May: Thursday, 5.22, 6:00 p.m. — Saturday, 5.24, 8:00 p.m.
July: Thursday, 7.24, 6:00 p.m. — Saturday, 7.26, 8:00 p.m.
September: **Friday, 9.19, 4:00 p.m. — Sunday, 9.21, 8:00 p.m.
November: Thursday, 11.13, 6:00 p.m. — Saturday, 11.15, 8:00 p.m.
* The weekend will officially be over at 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night. However, students
are invited to share breakfast at our home before church.
* * This weekend will primarily be spent at Isidoreʼs Plough on Brush Creek in Adamʼs County. Students are invited to stay through Monday morning (optional).
Course Fee: $635; To register, please contact the Lockridges as 513.351.3531 or
fishintut@gmail.com.
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