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Why have so many churches started community gardens over the past decade? Are they simply a fad? Or do community gardens somehow connect more deeply with the mission of the churches that launch them? What can churches and faith-based institutions interested in starting community gardens learn from those that have started their own gardens over the past decade? And what would it mean for a church to put Christ in the center of its community gardening efforts? In order to discern best practices for launching Christ-centered community gardens moving forward, Cultivating Neighborhood begins with a brief survey of the history of community gardens in the United States and builds a constructive theological framework for community gardening grounded in the practice of Christian hospitality. It continues with two case studies of church-sponsored community gardens and one case study of a community garden sponsored by a Christian college, all three of which were created between 2003 and 2011. The results of this research conclude with a new definition of Christ-centered community gardening and an outline of fifteen best practices for launching a Christ-centered community garden. ""If every church and school had a garden, how different this world might be! Cultivating Neighborhood reminds us that caring for a garden provides somethving that cannot be purchased at the grocery store: the satisfaction of eating food tended by our own hands. Jesus is the new Adam, and we are invited to tend and protect the garden, this earth. Highly recommended!"" --Nancy Sleeth, author of Almost Amish Bryan K. Langlands is a church planter, campus minister, and instructor in the Religion Department at Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY. He is the editor of William H. Willimon's book, A Will to Lead and the Grace to Follow: Letters on Leadership from a Peculiar Prophet (2011).

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Cultivating Neighborhood
• Subtitle: Identifying Best Practices for Launching a Christ-Centered Community Garden
• Author: Bryan K Langlands
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122
• EAN: 9781625646569
• ISBN: 9781625646569
• ID: 08826672
• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Weight: 150 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. August 2014

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