Food: Communion, Community, and Creation

Loren Wilkinson
Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies & Philosophy, Regent College. BA (Wheaton), MA (Johns Hopkins), MA (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), PhD (Syracuse).

Mary Ruth Wilkinson
Sessional Lecturer, Regent College.
BA (Wheaton), MA (University of Illinois).

Eating is one of the most profound ways we are related to each other, to the created world, and to God. In this course we will explore, within the framework of Christian theology, some of the biological, ecological, psychological, aesthetic, spiritual, agricultural, and economic aspects of what, why, and how we eat. The core of the course will be reading, lecture, and discussion of the considerable literature dealing with food. But the two-week course, held on Galiano Island, will also provide a living context of cooking, feasting, fasting, and gardening together, which will add good spices to the academic victuals (from victus “food”; related to vivere “to live”).

May 28–June 8, off-campus

INDS 535
3 graduate credit hours, no auditors

Maximum enrollment: 20 credit students.
Additional course fee: $450

NOTE: This course has special drop deadlines. The deadline for dropping the course with a 100% refund is 4:30 pm on Monday, April 30, 2012. Payment deadline for all course tuition and fees is also April 30, 2012. There are no refunds after April 30, but this course may be dropped without refund until May 21, 2012.

NOTE: Students will be required to supply additional information and release forms prior to attending this course. Students will be contacted regarding this information once registration in the course has been confirmed.

Credit Hours	Cost
3 credit hours	$1320

There is a one-time $35 non-refundable registration fee applied to the first registered Summer course. All taxes are included in the cost of the course.

Course registration opens February 20, 2012. Please see our Registration page for details.

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Loren and Mary Ruth Wilkinson have been married to each other since 1965, and organized and taught their first Christian “environmental studies” program at Seattle Pacific in 1974. In 1977-78 Loren was one of the visiting scholars in the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship’s project on “Stewardship of Creation”, and was editor of Earthkeeping, one of the early books on that subject. In 1981 they joined the faculty at Regent College, and in 1988 they moved to a community-owned farm on Galiano Island, and they have lived there since. They have written together the book Caring for Creation in Your Own Backyard. Loren and Mary Ruth have two grown children and three grandchildren. They divide their time between teaching at Regent and taking care of chickens, two dogs and a big garden.

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