Ragan Sutterfield
Ragan Sutterfield 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, Sojourners, The Oxford American, Plough Online, and The Englewood Review of Books.
Ragan's writing and interests are focused at the intersection of faith 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 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. In a project funded by the Louisville Institute, Ragan is now at work on a book exploring humus and humility, soil science and Christian spirituality.
Ragan seeks to live the good life with his wife Emily and daughters Lillian and Lucia.
Ragan's writing and interests are focused at the intersection of faith 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 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. In a project funded by the Louisville Institute, Ragan is now at work on a book exploring humus and humility, soil science and Christian spirituality.
Ragan seeks to live the good life with his wife Emily and daughters Lillian and Lucia.