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Author: Duke Divinity School

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Plenary speakers Ellen F. Davis, Joel Salatin, Scott Cairns, and Norman Wirzba explore multiple connections between food, farming, and the life of faith.
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Plenary II: Joel Salatin

Plenary II: Joel Salatin

2013-10-1701:11:59

Joel Salatin is a third-generation organic farmer and author whose family owns and operates Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, forage-based rabbits and direct markets everything to 4,000 families, 40 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets. A prolific author, Salatin's seven books to date include both how-to and big-picture themes. Polyface Farm features prominently in Michael Pollan's New York Times bestseller Omnivore's Dilemma and the award-winning documentary Food, Inc.
Plenary III: Scott Cairns

Plenary III: Scott Cairns

2013-10-1701:23:43

Scott Cairns is a professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is also director of MU Writing Workshops in Greece, a program that brings graduate and undergraduate students to Thessaloniki and Thasos every June for intensive engagement with literary life in modern Greece. His poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Image, Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, etc., and both have been anthologized in multiple editions of Best American Spiritual Writing. His most recent poetry collection is Compass of Affection. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006, and is completing work on a new poetry collection, Idiot Psalms, and a translation of selections from The Philokalia under the title Descent to the Heart. His memoir will be released in a new edition called Slow Pilgrim in 2014.
Plenary IV: Norman Wirzba

Plenary IV: Norman Wirzba

2013-10-1701:09:37

Norman Wirzba is professor of theology and ecology at Duke Divinity School. He teaches courses on theology as they relate to environmental and agricultural issues. His current research focuses on developing an account of the doctrine of creation that speaks to humanity’s faithful presence in the world. He is the author of several books, including Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land. He edited The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.
Ellen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. The author of eight books and many articles, she focuses her research on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their responses to urgent public issues, particularly the environmental crisis and interfaith relations.
A former emergency room physician, Dr. Matthew Sleeth resigned from his position as chief of the medical staff and director of the ER to teach, preach, and write about faith and the environment. Since founding Blessed Earth, he has spoken at 1,000 churches and schools throughout the country. Dr. Sleeth is a graduate of George Washington University School of Medicine and has two postdoctoral fellowships. He is the author of Serve God and Save the Planet: A Christian Call to Action, the introduction to The Green Bible, and 24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life.
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