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The complex world of one family farm
Ted Genoways overturns assumptions not only about industrial agriculture but also about the farmers who are part of it.
by Heidi Haverkamp
Grace alive among us
Grace is an exchange, says Terra Schwerin Rowe—but not an economic one.
by Alan Van Wyk
The wild places nearby
Dwelling in the edgelands can help us find what’s most hidden.
by Stephanie Paulsell
By summer, the plants are working overtime. It's a wonder we don't have as many words for green as the Inuit have for snow.
by Terra Brockman
Flesh is indeterminate. It flows, changes over time, and is consumed and transformed. It becomes the reality of rich spiritual encounter.
by Jacob J. Erickson
by Carol Howard Merritt
People do not float through life in the bubble that is their skin. We are grounded, dependent beings that live through the lives and deaths of others.
by Norman Wirzba