Rooted and Grounded: Essays on Land and Christian Discipleship

Edited by Ryan D. Harker and Janeen Bertsche Johnson. This collection of essays, and the conference from which it took shape, calls the church to root itself more deeply in the agrarian biblical text and ecclesial tradition in order to remember and freshly imagine ways of living on and with the land that are restorative, reconciling, and faithful to the triune God's invitation to new life in Christ. When we listen attentively to and patiently learn from the biblical text, church history, and theology, the land itself can become a conversation partner, and we are summoned to recognize that the gospel is reserved not simply for humanity, but for the whole of creation. Paperback. Wipf & Stock, 2016. 255 pages.