
Jesus for Farmers and Fishers
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Publication
Mar 30, 2021
Format
Hardback
Illustrated
No
Price
26.99
Dimensions
5.75 x 8.75 in
ISBN
9781506465067
Pages
196
Age
Adult 18+
Category
General Nonfiction
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Description
Awards & Endorsements
Douglas E. Christie, PhD, author of The Blue Sapphire of the Mind
Author(s)

Gary Paul Nabhan
Related Titles
Jesus for Farmers and Fishers
Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Climate disasters, tariff wars, extractive technologies, and deepening debts are plummeting American food producers into what is quickly becoming the most severe farm crisis of the last half-century. Yet we are largely unaware of the plight of those whose hands and hearts toil to sustain us.Agrarian and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan--the "father of the local food movement"--offers a fresh, imaginative look at the parables of Jesus to bring us into a heart of compassion for those in the food economy hit by this unprecedented crisis. Offering palpable scenes from the Sea of Galilee and the fields, orchards, and feasting tables that surrounded it, Nabhan contrasts the profound ways Jesus interacted with those who were the workers of the field and the fishers of the sea with the events currently occurring in American farm country and fishing harbors.Tapping the work of Middle Eastern naturalists, environmental historians, archaeologists, and agro-ecologists, Jesus for Farmers and Fishers is sure to catalyze deeper conversations, moral appraisals, and faith-based social actions in each of our faith-land-water communities.
Reviews, Awards & Endorsements
Douglas E. Christie, PhD, author of The Blue Sapphire of the Mind
"A bold, courageous, and utterly original rereading of Jesus's parables that draws us deep into questions of what it means to stand with those struggling with food insecurity, erosion of cultural identity, and spiritual loss. This gifted ethnobotanist, with his eyes wide open, helps us feel anew the pathos and power of Jesus's teachings about food and life and reimagine the world as sacramental."
Author

Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is an Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, seed saver, agro-ecologist, and agrarian activist. A former MacArthur Fellow, he has been called the "father of the local food movement" by Time. He currently holds the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Food & Water Security for the Borderlands. An Arab-American, he has engaged with farmers and refugee farmworkers in Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, and Oman. Nabhan keeps orchards, gardens and greenhouses at his home in Patagonia, Arizona, then fishes and forages from an old adobe house on the shores of the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.
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