Oct 31 2024ENVIRONMENT
A Pastor's Farm: From Health to Climate Activism
Rev. Richard Joyner didn't always see himself as a farmer. Growing up in rural North Carolina, he watched his father, a talented sharecropper, get cheated by landowners. This left a bad taste. After joining the army and becoming a chaplain, Joyner took over a small church in Conetoe, a town with no grocery store and a high poverty rate. Seeing his congregants suffer ...
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