Faithful Harvest Campaign New and News "Not Just a Cup, but a Just Cup" in O Magazine. Click here to read the story. Faith and Environmental Health “To live, we must daily break the bread and shed the blood of creation. The point is, when we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament; when we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration…in such desecration, we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness and others to want.” Wendell Berry The Faithful Harvest Campaign is a challenge to people of faith everywhere to regard the acts of eating and food production as sacramental. Faithful Harvest is a way of life - a new framework for making choices, it is living out a new consciousness of the importance of food in your faith life and in our society. Faithful Harvest is a groundswell to transform the U.S. food system into a food system that rights the injustices of current practices. Click here to read more about why people of faith care about food and food production. Learn More Food and Farming and Faith Environmental Health and Agriculture Pesticides Land, Water, and Air Organic and Sustainable Farming Local Food Climate Impacts People of Faith Take Action Real Stories from Real Congregations Click here to learn how you can take action in your congregation. Learn what you can do at home to take action. Take action in your community Links and Resources Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden NCC worship resources The National Catholic Rural Life Conference boldy proclaims: Eating is a Moral Act! This site is a treasure of information and reflection on what Christian teachings tell us about eating. "Food As Sacramental" is the introductory essay to the anthology, Food & Faith, edited by Mike Schut. This is an excellent, accessible, and compelling essay on the intersections of food and faith. "Farming By The Book: Food, Farming, and the Environment in the Bible and in the Qur-an" by Gary W. Fick Sustainable Agriculture: A Christian ethic of gratitude" by Mark Graham, assistant professor of theology and religious studies, Villanova University       For More Information Contact: Eco-Justice Program OfficeNational Council of Churches 110 Maryland Ave., NE Suite 108 Washington, DC 20002 (202) 544-2350 info@ncccusa.org