Soil-to-Sanctuary: Black Churches, Powerful Cultural Forces, Set Their Sights on Food Security

Thank you, Monica, for posting this powerful, uplifting, and brimming with hope article! Please know I'm cloning on our ACEs in Faith-Based organizations community.

What the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church in Baltimore has initiated is truly a national model. From Leilani Clark's article, "The explicit emphasis on Black churches is intentional, says Brown. Even as private Black land owners were drained of their resources, Black churches continue to own property across the U.S. Longevity is another factor; some Black Christian congregations go back centuries, resilient in the face of an onslaught of traumas.

Black churches, he says, are a powerful cultural and socio-political force that has been overlooked in many food and environmental circles—they sit in a blind spot of the so-called Good Food Movement."

A powerful example of linking community resilience, nutrition security, racial and economic justice.