{"id":7311,"date":"2018-03-12T13:45:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T13:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/03\/13\/princeton-theological-seminarys-farminary-director-speaks-march-20\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:01:07","slug":"princeton-theological-seminarys-farminary-director-speaks-march-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/princeton-theological-seminarys-farminary-director-speaks-march-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Princeton Theological Seminary&#8217;s &#8220;Farminary&#8221; director speaks March 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Nathan Stucky, director of the Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, will speak at Furman University\u2019s Charles E. Daniel Memorial Chapel Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>His CLP talk, \u201cGod and the Dirt: Soil, Sacrament, and Christian Spirituality\u201d is open to the public without charge. It is sponsored by Furman\u2019s Office of Spiritual Life.<\/p>\n<p>In his talk, Stucky focuses on Christianity&#8217;s role in sustainability practice, and explores the idea that love of God and neighbor might be dependent on and reflected by humanity&#8217;s relationship with the land.<\/p>\n<p>Stucky grew up on a farm in Kansas where his love for Christian faith and agriculture first took root. After earning a B.A. in Music from Bethel College (Kansas), Stucky spent six years doing ecumenical youth ministry on the eastern shore of Maryland, and two years farming in Kansas.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35808\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35808\" class=\"wp-image-35808 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Nate-Stucky-Farminary-Classroom-649.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 450px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 450\/297;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stucky (right, in yellow cap, grey jacket) explores the integration of theological education and agrarianism.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After farming, Stucky earned an M.Div. and a Ph.D. (Practical Theology, Christian Education and Formation) from Princeton Theological Seminary. His scholarship explores the integration of theological education and agrarianism, and he sees the Farminary as a locus for enacting that integration.<\/p>\n<p>Ordained in the Mennonite Church (USA), Stucky engages Farminary work as integral to his calling to teaching ministry. He lives in Princeton, N.J. with his wife and three children.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman\u2019s News and Media Relations office at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Nathan Stucky, director of the Farminary Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, will speak at Furman University\u2019s Charles E. Daniel Memorial Chapel Tuesday, March 20 at 7 p.m. His CLP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":17802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}