Dr. Elaine Heath has had an amazing life journey, even growing up in poverty with many hard experiences - including having to leave home and find her way as a junior in high school. After earning her PhD in theology she became ordained in the methodist church and for eleven years she worked as a professor at Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and as professor and dean of missional and pastoral theology at Duke Divinity School at Duke University. However, she retied from Duke University in order to develop, live at and serve as lead farmer and Abbess at Spring Forest - a monastic community located in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
The community operates a small retentive farm that produces thousands of pounds of food each year to help those who are struggling with food insecurity along with a traditional Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscription service. Spring Forest also offers a myriad of agritourism experiences and hosts many spiritual formation ministries, children’s programs and much more.
Hopefully after this episode you will understand for yourself that Spring Forest is at the forefront of a new reformation, one that is freeing the christian faith from the sinful structures of racism, classism, many phobias and extreme evangelism and mission. Whereas the new reformation is all about the emergence of a generous, hospital and equitable form of christianity - one that is healing the wounds of this world!
Abbess at Spring Forest
Abbess at Spring Forest
