Pamela Dolan

Contemplative Gardening (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An enchanting guide for turning the art of gardening into opportunities for reflection and meditation.

Contemplative Gardening makes the connection between tending to the earth and tending to our own souls, between caring for the planet and caring for one another. Pamela Dolan explores the myriad relationships between all living things that come to light when we dig in the soil. Whether you're an experienced gardener or one just beginning, you will be fed by this intersection of food and faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640655416
• Artikelnr.: 63213363

Autorenporträt

Pamela Dolan is the rector of the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis, California and is an active gardener. She started the Shepherd Farm Garden in suburban Missouri, which gave away thousands of pounds of produce to food-insecure households. Her religion writing has been featured in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pamela is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School and holds a doctorate in ministry from Sewanee-The University of the South. She lives in Woodland, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Peter H. Raven
Introduction: Finding God by Digging in the Dirt
1. Confessions of a Reluctant Gardener
2. Finding a Place
3. Grounding Ourselves in Soil
4. Death and Compost: Learning to Love Our Limits
5. Hospitality and Justice: Whose Land Is It, Anyway?
Afterword: The Ecology of God: On Psalm 23
Acknowledgments
Notes