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

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

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.

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  • Publisher Broadleaf Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • ISBN 9781506465067
  • eBook ISBN 9781506465074
  • Dimensions 5.75 x 8.75
  • Pages 196
  • Publication Date March 30, 2021

Endorsements

"Gary Nabhan's work reminds us of what I can describe only as a sort of historical wonder..."

Wendell Berry, author of The Unsettling of America

Interviews and Articles

Excerpt on Sojourners: Fishing Against Empire 

Interview on Christian Century: Enthobotanist Gary Nabhan on food justice and Jesus 

Article on Publishers Weekly: New Titles Call Care for Earth a Sacred Act 

Interview on Slow Food Santa Fe 

Article on Eco Farming Daily: Food and Farming Crisis Requires Both Science and Faith 

Interview with Earth & Spirit Center: Life on the Edge: Gary Paul Nabhan on Borders, Margins, Empires, and Wildness

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