Good Food

Jennifer R. Ayres is Associate Professor of Religious Education, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. A frequent writer on faith formation and food justice, she is the author of Waiting for a Glacier to Move: Practicing Social Witness. She lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area.

Preface Introduction A Grounded Practical Theology of Food Part I 1 Primer on the Global Food System People, Places, Planet 2 Primer on the Global Food System Policies 3 Making Room at the Table A Theology and Ethics of Food Part II 4 Church-Supported Farming Building Relationships and Supporting Sustainable Agriculture 5 Growing Food From Food Insecurity to Food Sovereignty 6 Transformative Travel Education, Encountering the Other, and Political Advocacy 7 Vocational Sustainability Agriculture and Ingenuity on the College Farm Conclusion: Unearthing Beauty Everyday Visionaries and Hope for the Food System Notes Bibliography Index

Good Food is a very good book, one of the very best introductions both to the problems of our current food system and to the deep Christian sources of some of the solutions to those problems. --Loren Wilkinson, Regent College "Theology Today" Caught in a bad system yet hoping for an eschatological feast, we must both endure and repair, repent and rejoice, theologize more honestly, and act more faithfully. Ayres shows us the way. --D Brent Laytham "The Christian Century" Preachers and homileticians will find Good Food to be informative, persuasive, and pragmatic for crafting theological responses in classrooms, pulpits, and the public sphere to food insecurity at multiple registers. --Gerald C. Liu, The Theological School, Drew University "Homiletic" This scholarly book ought to be read by practical theologians, ethicists, those engaged in teaching the arts of ministry, and all those committed (or vehemently opposed) to doing theology by engaging lived human experience in grounded ways. --Kate Lassiter, Mount St. Joseph University "Interpretation"