March 10, 2016
7PM
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York City, NY, USA
Theologian Fred Bahnson, author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, speaks about finding God in food, gardening and community agriculture.
What does it mean to be truly alive? To answer that question Fred Bahnson set out to visit different faith communities around the country engaged in the act of growing food. After an agrarian conversion in Chiapas, Mexico and founding a community garden in rural North Carolina, Bahson grew mushrooms with Trappist monks, caught a buzz with Pentecostal coffee roasters, and celebrated Sukkot with Jewish organic farmers. In this lively evening, Fred Bahnson will recount stories from his pilgrimage to the holy country of food and faith, then dialogue with Shamu Sadeh, the Director of Adamah, a Jewish educational farm; and The Reverend Canon Julia Whitworth, Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at the Cathedral.