About the Author: Jeremy John

Sometime in high school I accidentally ate the red pill instead of the more harmless blue one, and I've been an activist ever since. In 2003 I spent six months in prison for civil disobedience while working to close the School of the Americas, converting to Christianity while imprisoned. I started the Food and Faith Network at the Quixote Center, building grassroots alternative food economies in faith institutions that embody the beloved community. I am currently building a website that will connect farms and churches, mosques, and synagogues to buy fresh vegetables directly and distribute them on a sliding scale to those in need. I am a totally untrained and unqualified theologian working to build a praxis-informed Christianity that can disrupt our money-driven society with a Christ-formed "economy" of love that trickles up from the base. I contribute to the Good Men Project, Geez, Sojourners, the Huffington Post and Red Letter Christians, blogging here. I'm a poet in process of writing a dystopian science fiction novel. I love to fix broken machines and to love the broken people who are outside the normal's pale. Want me to come talk at your church or just drop me a line? Contact me! If you want to know me better, you can always follow me on twitter.

  • the world as she stands now

    By Published On: October 21, 2013

    the world as she stands now she was good at birth her age like cracks in a foundation spidering away from crabgrass

  • Is the Kingdom of God Built of Vegetables?

    By Published On: October 21, 2013

    We find ourselves in a food economy that sickens us. Health is divided along race and class lines: the food economy particularly sickens those whose wages do not allow them to buy the foods that can cure us of the diseases industrial “foods” cause. Corporations, who do not speak the language of human love and health, wrangle to profit from the stream of ill Americans falling from the industrial foods conveyor belt. But we know that type 2 diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and some cancers are fully preventable by replacing part of what we eat with fruits and vegetables. Why, in a wealthy, fertile country are we wrecking the environment to produce foods that kill us?