Gospel and Agriculture: A Blog Series

I'm interested in sustainable agriculture - I have been for around 20 years, with varying levels of interest over that time. One thing that I've consistently noticed though, is that it's an area that the church lacks interest in.

Recently, I've had an increasing interest in this area - the global needs are massive! We were all exposed so clearly to the deforestation in Haiti in the media coverage of the quake, there have been very prominent statistics about the number of starving people in the world reaching 1 billion, and climate change has been all over the news. Yet there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of Christian engagement in agricultural issues.

My goal here is, time and health permitting, to probe some of the agricultural issues that we should be thinking about, to consider how the Biblical narrative might speak into these issues, and consider some of the unfortunate thinking that seems to cause the church to shy away from literally "getting our hands dirty".