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Entries by Kent Hayden, M.Div. from 08/2010

Food and Faith: Agriculture as a Theological Act

| Posted 08.02.2010 | Religion
Read More: Fair Trade, Food Faith, Farming Spirituality, Farming Faith, Sustainable Food, Spirituality, Food Spirituality, Religion News

I always imagined there was a link between faith and a milker's grip. But for the first 25 years of my life, these loosely held notions remained in the background of my thinking and living.

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The Case for Christian Agnosticism

| Posted 08.12.2010 | Religion
Read More: Christianity Agnosticism, Christianity, Christianity Metanoia, Jesus Metanoia, Agnostic, Metanoia, Christian Agnosticism, Religion News

To change one's thinking is to admit one's ignorance. But at some point along the way to modern theology, we bought into the idea that ignorance is a sign of weakness. Agnosticism became conflated with indifference, or worse.

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Connecting with the Sacred Through Fasting: Could It Solve the U.S. Food Crisis?

| Posted 08.31.2010 | Religion
Read More: Veganism, Sustainable Food, Fasting, Sustainability, Sustainable Agriculture, Vegetarianism, Spiritual Fasting, Religious Fasting, Industrial Farming Complex, Fasting Spirituality, Religion News

Fasting is a non-rational abstinence. It is not the abstinence of the lactose intolerant, who forgoes milk because it will make her ill; it is the abstinence of the Hindu, who forgoes milk because it will damage his soul.

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