From People of the Tower to People of the Porch: Liturgical Agrarianism at Church of the Pilgrims (PCUSA)

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Notes

Ellen Davis, Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 1.

See http://greenfiretimes.com/2011/10/the-agrarian-standard/.

Norman Wirzba, ed., The Essential Agrarian Reader (Berkeley, CA: University Press of Kentucky, 2003), 4.

Ibid., 6.

The PCUS was largely made up of members of the former Presbyterian Church of the Confederate States of America.

See http://www.history.pcusa.org/history-online/presbyterian-history/history-church.

Ellen F. Davis, “The Bible and Our Topsoil,” Tikkun 19, no. 4 (July/August, 2004), http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/Davis-TheBibleandOurTopsoil.

Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural (New York, NY: North Point, 1981), 273.

Genesis 11:4 (NRSV).

Photos of wheelbarrow, font and communion table by Andrew Satter.

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Ashley Goff

Ashley Goff is the Minister for Spiritual Formation at Church of the Pilgrims (PCUSA) and is ordained in the United Church of Christ.