Shannon Jung
Shannon Jung teaches town and country ministries at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. His latest book is Hunger and Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls.
The kingdom of God is like a farm
Nineteenth-century agrarians believed that community is more important than the individual and solidarity is more important than profit.
by Shannon Jung
August 10, 2016
Remaking the Heartland, by Robert Wuthnow
Robert Wuthnow's social history of the Midwest demonstrates how the values that emerged in the six decades before 1950 were reshaped in the following six decades. In most ways Wuthnow gets it right.
reviewed by Shannon Jung
June 22, 2011
Hollowing Out the Middle: The RuralBrainDrain and What It Means forAmerica
reviewed by Shannon Jung
January 26, 2010