Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith
(By Fred Bahnson)
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As Anathoth slowly embraces a new future as a progressive multi-racial society, Bahnson is likewise transformed from shy and self-effacing to a charismatic leader. His time in Anathoth becomes the impetus for a road trip spent visiting different faith-based agrarian groups, one for each season—from a community of Roman Catholic monks who pursue a life of contemplation while harvesting rare mushrooms on a Southern plantation, to a Jewish organic farm in the Berkshires, where he and other young people learn the ancient art of Israeli farming right in New York.
Recently appointed director of the Wake Forest University’s pioneering Food & Faith Initiative, Bahnson is the perfect guide on this lyrical and inspiring journey. Through his travels across the country and into his own past, Bahnson comes to see “how our yearning for real food is inextricably bound up in our spiritual desire to be fed” and discovers how rituals of cultivation can become a powerful source of community and purpose.”
