Food Justice
Project Dialogue cosponsored 2 wonderful events in collagoration with the Center for Biomedical Ethics & Society, the Cal Turner Program, the Society of St. Cornelius and the Divinity School to bring Dr. Norman Wirzba to speak on his work Food and Faith: a Theology of Eating. There was a breakfast discussion entitled Jesus and the Environment: Bases for Creation Care, Wednesday, November 12th at 8am in the Divinity School Reading Room. Later that day, there was a Lunch Symposium entitled, Food Justice. This was at the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society in the 2525 Building on West End. Both talks were fascinating and provocative.
Norman Wirzba pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. He lectures frequently in Canada and the United States. His work focuses on understanding and promoting practices that can equip both rural and urban church communities to be more faithful and responsible members of creation. Current research is centered on a recovery of the doctrine of creation and a restatement of humanity in terms of its creaturely life.
Professor Wirzba has published The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight. His most recent books are Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating and (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the 
Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation. He also has edited several books, including The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry.
Professor Wirzba serves as general editor for the book series Culture of the Land: A Series in the New Agrarianism, published by the University Press of Kentucky, and is co-founder and executive committee member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology.