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Baylor Connections - Jenny Howell

Truett Seminary - CORD Magazine - Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice Program - World Hunger Relief Farm - Program Director – Jenny Howell – portraits, headshots – 07/01/2021
Robert Rogers
Truett Seminary - CORD Magazine - Theology, Ecology, and Food Justice Program - World Hunger Relief Farm - Program Director – Jenny Howell – portraits, headshots – 07/01/2021

What are the connections between food, creation and faith? Jenny Howell serves as director of Baylor’s Theology, Ecology and Food Justice Program, which offers a holistic approach to educate students, ministers, leaders and more on the Church’s role in addressing food challenges.

In this Baylor Connections, she takes listeners inside Waco’s World Hunger Relief Farm, where her work takes place and models approaches to address hunger globally, analyzes complex issues impacting hunger and considers the role of hope as the Holidays approach.

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