May 3, 2014 Tweets about #FoodAndFaith @ecampbellreed
“Food and Faith: A Matter of Health and Wholeness”
Conversations with Norman Wirzba, Ellen Davis and Wendell Berry
St. George’s Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee
Advice for young farmers? Be careful, don’t give up your town job & don’t let the economy victimize you. -Wendell Berry #FoodAndFaith
“Cheap food” public policy is a failure. -Wendell Berry #FoodAndFaith
Liberals are just as big a threat as Limbaugh b/c they think being Xn = political correctness (HT Will Campbell) -W Berry #FoodAndFaith
We should know bonds to the land by both economy and pleasure. -Wendell Berry #FoodAndFaith
There is a fundamental cruelty to living on earth & vegetarianism will not get you out of this dilemma. -Wendell Berry #FoodAndFaith
A few more tweets from Wendell Berry on the way … (I heard him speak on #FoodAndFaith this morning). Then a blog post.
Ellen Davis – Psalm 65 starts w/silence of praise & ends w/listening to all creation praise. God is the farmer in between #FoodAndFaith
Fun picture: Wendell Berry, Norman Wirzba & Ellen Davis #FoodAndFaith pic.twitter.com/xAYjKS13XI
Churches need to cultivate people who can cultivate the land to feed & heal the world. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Norman Wirzba is dreaming of time when churches all have a garden manager. #FoodAndFaith pic.twitter.com/n4mYQcDfIx
Jesus is the bread of life – we eat, take in & are transformed by this bread. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Labor is not reflection of misdeed, but a path of god’s patience, humility, propriety & gratitude. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
God loves soil. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Naming … ‘Food IS God’s love & delight made delectable.’ -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
God loves & enjoys material bodies & creates with hope of joining that creation. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
How will we name food? Flower. Weed. Vegetable. Commodity. Naming makes all the difference. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Gardening teaches us about frustration, impotence & death. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Our isolation from the land separates us from vulnerability, fragility, serendipity & hope. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
How are we going to be healthy in a poisoned world? -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
Never in history have so few people had so little insight about how to grow food. -Norman Wirzba #FoodAndFaith
sudden change of plans… I’m going to hear Wendell Berry this morning! link
