Elaine Heath has served as dean of the Divinity School at Duke University, the McCreless Professor of Evangelism at the Perkins School of Theology, and the founding president of Neighborhood Seminary. The author of twelve books, Heath is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, and she served in pastoral ministry prior to her academic ministry. She lives with her husband at Spring Forest, an intentional Christian community and farm in rural North Carolina where she serves as abbess.
Spring Forest is the church of my wildest dreams. There are sheep and goats grazing in our fields, and what could be better than that? Today, as always, the land is gorgeous with loblollies and beech, a woodland trail, whitetail deer, and tidy crops in low-till rows. A dozen kids and moms are in the […]
