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Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Gardening
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Contemplative Gardening

Contemplative Gardening

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640655416
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Publication date: 04/19/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 832,216
File size: 20 MB
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About the Author

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.

Peter Raven is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden. He served as an advisor to Pope Francis on Laudato Si and was named a Hero of the Planet by Time magazine. He lives in Wildwood, Missouri.

Table of Contents

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

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