Co-hosts, Jerusalem Greer and Brian Sellers-Petersen talk humus with Rev. Ragan Sutterfield.

Ragan is a priest in the Episcopal Church and serves a parish in his native Arkansas. His writing has appeared in a variety of places including The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Sojourners, The Oxford American, Plough, and The Englewood Review of Books.

Ragan’s writing and interests are focused at the intersection of spiritual formation and ecology where he brings his background in birding, permaculture, and soil ecology into conversation with philosophy, theology, and the Christian spiritual tradition. 

Ragan is the author of The Art of Being a Creature: Meditations on Humus and Humility (Cascade), Wendell Berry and the Given Life(Franciscan Media), This is My Body (Convergent/Random House), Cultivating Reality  (Cascade),  and the small collection of essays Farming as a Spiritual Discipline.  

Ragan seeks to live the good life with his wife Emily and daughters Lillian and Lucia.