Theological Creative Nonfiction: Christian Literature for Christian Life

Since the Christian worldview is composed of more than theoretical truth, Christian literature should reflect these other aspects, such as how that truth is applied in the lives of the saints. Furthermore, the praxis element of worldview is reflected in literature more naturally in narrative genres than in more expository writings like systematic theology. Narrative genres mirror the complex, temporal way a person lives his life, and because of this are able to show how objective truth is applied in subjective situations. For this reason, Christians need contemporary writing that reflects the process of everyday Christian living to offer a model for growth and encouragement. Several authors have written books that can be classified as theological creative Nonfiction. They share the goal of encouraging the saints in everyday circumstances of faith as well as the methodology of drawing from the author’s own life and experience and are examples of the same model of theological writing that directly reflects and informs praxis

Review of \u3ci\u3eTied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking\u3c/i\u3e. By Wilson J. Warren

Wilson J. Warren provides important answers to that complex question. In this study, he traces the transformation of the red meat industry across the Midwest from the terminal stockyards in Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha to plants near small towns, particularly in the Great Plains, where cattle and hogs arrive via trucks rather than railroad cars. Warren emphasizes the packers\u27 shift from buying through commission men at terminal markets to direct buying from farmers at plants located close to feed, water, and cheap labor. He also discusses the technical and marketing innovations that substantially changed the meatpacking industry, beginning about 1960, particularly with the introduction of electric knives and the shipment of precut and boxed meat directly to retailers. In addition, Warren traces ethnic change among meatpacking workers from first and second generation East Europeans in the major cities to whites, African Americans, Southeast Asians, and Latino workers in rural areas. And he provides an informative ethical discussion about killing animals for meat and the manner in which cattle and hogs are slaughtered (or not) before reaching the butchers\u27 knives

Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910

Review of: Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910, by David M. Emmons

Review of \u3ci\u3e From Columbus to ConAgra: The Globalization of Agriculture and Food,\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Allessandro Bonanno, Lawrence Busch, William Frieland, Lourdes Gouveia, and Enzo Mingione

Despite differing definitions, most scholars agree that the late twentieth century is an age of globalization in agriculture and the food industry. For some, globalization means the elimination of trade barriers; for others it involves the development of international relationships in production and distribution. Globalization, however, is exemplified for all by transnational corporations (TNCs), such as ConAgra, that own and control a variety of world-wide production and distribution systems, thereby controlling millions of workers, manipulating governments, and changing consumption patterns. In contrast to corporations of the past, TNCs essentially exist independently of nation states. Although national and international laws provide basic rules of behavior, TNCs have used capital to transcend the authority of the nation state. Simply put, if a nation imposes too many tax, wage, hour, and environmental restrictions, TNCs move all or part of their operations to another country where such rules do not apply, and their nations of origin can do little about it. Controllers of global capital, rather than nation states, are making new rules for the agribusiness industry

Review of \u3ci\u3eTied to the Great Packing Machine: The Midwest and Meatpacking\u3c/i\u3e. By Wilson J. Warren

Wilson J. Warren provides important answers to that complex question. In this study, he traces the transformation of the red meat industry across the Midwest from the terminal stockyards in Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha to plants near small towns, particularly in the Great Plains, where cattle and hogs arrive via trucks rather than railroad cars. Warren emphasizes the packers\u27 shift from buying through commission men at terminal markets to direct buying from farmers at plants located close to feed, water, and cheap labor. He also discusses the technical and marketing innovations that substantially changed the meatpacking industry, beginning about 1960, particularly with the introduction of electric knives and the shipment of precut and boxed meat directly to retailers. In addition, Warren traces ethnic change among meatpacking workers from first and second generation East Europeans in the major cities to whites, African Americans, Southeast Asians, and Latino workers in rural areas. And he provides an informative ethical discussion about killing animals for meat and the manner in which cattle and hogs are slaughtered (or not) before reaching the butchers\u27 knives

Irish Iowa

Review of: Irish Iowa, by Timothy Walch