Welcome to the Agriculture and Theology Project.

How to join the ATP network

Dear Visitor,
I have recently taken over management of this site, and want to gradually build a network of people who will use it. So if you feel you have something to contribute in the general area of theology and/or agriculture then send me an email to mjhodson@brookes.ac.uk In the email say what user name you would like to have, and I will send you a temporary password. Simple!
Looking forward to building this work.
Best Wishes,
Martin Hodson

ATP Update February 2009

Dear All,
We are now in a position to start reporting on some of the material from our November conference. The two keynote addresses by Martin and Margot Hodson have now been turned into RuSource Briefing Papers by Alan Spedding, and links are given below. We are working on material from the six workshops, and will report back on these at a later date.
Best Wishes,
Martin Hodson

ACF National conference November 17 2008

ACF National conference November 17 2008
at the National Agriculture Centre, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire

10.30 am – 4.00 pm

Cherishing the Earth
Challenges in farming, food and climate

A threatening reality has emerged, and the air seems to be filled with solutions advanced by special or vested interests, or riders of hobby horses, with myth and assertion and rumours of more treaties, pacts and regulations. In it all a hollow morality is becoming visible. Those who actually grow food can become ensnared by all the froth and unable to embrace the substance.

Hope for Planet Earth DVD

Dear All,
As many of you will know, Hope for Planet Earth, the Christian climate change tour toured the UK, taking in a total of 35 venues in 2008 and 2009. The organisations behind the tour, The John Ray Initiative, Tearfund, A Rocha UK and SJI have now produced two DVD resource packs based on the tour materials which you can buy from SJI:

Cereal Farming in the Ukraine

Dear All,
A friend of mine, Masha Tymchenko, wrote this interesting article about the problems of cereal farmers in the Ukraine:
http://www.kyivpost.com/business/bus_general/30127
Any thoughts?
Martin

Eschatology

Revealing Revelation: A Biblical ‘Green-print’ For Our Ecological Future by Oxford Brookes student, Lizzie Rushton, is an interesting article basically comparing the eschatological views of some North American fundamentalists, Margot Hodson, Dave Bookless and Tom Wright. Good read!
See:
http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/revealing-revelation-a-bibl...
Best Wishes,
Martin

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