{"product_id":"9781451663334","title":"Soil and Sacrament","description":"\u003cb\u003ePart memoir, part spiritual quest, part agricultural travelogue, \u003ci\u003eSoil and Sacrament\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving and profound exploration of the joy and solace found in returning to the garden.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike many seekers of the authentic life, Fred Bahnson sought answers to big questions such as, what does it mean to follow God, and how should I live my life? But after divinity school at Duke, Bahnson began to find answers not in a pulpit, but at the handle of a plow. After his agrarian conversion, Bahnson started a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina to help its members grow real food and to feed his own spiritual hunger.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSoil and Sacrament\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of how Bahnson and people of faith all over America are re-rooting themselves in the land, reconnecting with their food and each other, and praying with their very lives the prayer of the early Christian monks: “We beg you, make us truly alive.” Through his journeys to four different faith communities—Catholic, Protestant, Pentecostal, and Jewish—Bahnson explores the con­nections between spiritual nourishment and the way we feed our bodies with the sensitivity, personal knowledge, and insight shared by Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSoil and Sacrament\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about communion in its deepest sense—an inspiring and joyful meditation on what grows above the earth, beneath it, and inside each one of us.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":48640109314273,"sku":"9781451663334","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/0956\/0289\/files\/9781451663334.jpg?v=1786571278","url":"https:\/\/simon-and-schuster-dev.myshopify.com\/products\/9781451663334","provider":"Simon and Schuster Dev","version":"1.0","type":"link"}