Top Posts of 2009

This is year #2 for WWJE? and it has been an interesting and instructive year. Moving to World Hunger Relief and reading the Ishmael trilogy being the two craziest things that happened… in my head at least. Here’s the top posts from this year according to the wordpress machine and edited by me based on comments and my own bias, in no particular order of reverse importance.

10. The Agricultural Amway

9. The Gospel of Guerrilla Gardening

8. Ode to Compost

7. Sabbath as Creation Care

6. Relocation and Reorientation

5. The Righteous Rich

4. The Original Sin of Agriculture: Knowledge of Good and Evil

3. Joseph’s Experiment With Redistribution

2. Transforming the Body

1. Turkey D-Day

Honorable mentions:

Industrial Churches

Synergistic Motivational Speaking at USDA Listening Session

The Myth of the Biblical Worldview

The Gospel of Compost Tea

Happy New Year!

Weekly Farm Update

Bear with me friends as we are completing our transition to the farm this week. We close on our house friday and my wife finishes teaching the same day. There is lots happening at the farm with meetings, benefit dinners and paper work, not to mention actual farm things like all the veggies popping up and chickens to be culled. Of course my education garden gets neglected, but hopefully that will change.

So there might be light posting while we settle into a new routine. I consider the Food in the Bible series both a spiritual discipline and research, so it will continue. I also hope to journal my experiences at the farm and process what I’m learning (that’s actually part of my internship). Above that it will probably vary from week to week. I do update on twitter pretty frequently, because it requires much less thought and preparation. Stay tuned…

The Farm Blog

WHRI aka “the farm” has a blog which I will occasionally post on as an intern. We are gearing up for summer and trying to connect with churches and other organizations planning their summer activities. I will probably cross post from this blog, but the other interns and volunteers also post on the blog. You can see a recent post with video and pictures of the latest additions to our goat family.

Roots and Rhythms

Well, we’re pretty well settled in here. I’m still adjusting to the rhythms and ways of life on the farm. I’m not sure how my blogging will fit into the rhythm and life here. Be patient with me as I feel out this new phase in our journey. I’m hoping to continue the Food in the Bible series as a discipline and add a weekly update/ reflection on life on the farm. The first farm update will come next week.

FYI, I will be teaching this Sunday at the Netzer Co-op. They meet at 5:30pm at First English Lutheran in Austin, TX. Google the details to get there (I’m too lazy).

Moving to the Farm

This weekend we will be moving to the World Hunger Farm. It’s hard to believe that the day is finally here. We’ve done a lot of work just to make it possible for this change to happen in our lives.

I know I’m going to be overwhelmed with everything I’ll be learning at the farm, but I would like to try and process the journey here on the blog. So, I think I will add a Weekly Farm Update to keep you posted. Certainly other things will creep into the regular posting schedule, but a regular feature helps keep me grounded… so to speak.

I’m looking forward to sharing this journey with you and processing my thoughts here.