Jesus for Farmers and Fishers

Jesus for Farmers and Fishers Justice for All Those Marginalized by Our Food System

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Publisher's Synopsis

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,

Book information

ISBN: 9781506465067
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
Imprint: Broadleaf Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 232.954
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 204
Weight: 396g
Height: 225mm
Width: 149mm
Spine width: 20mm