Saint Paul | School of Theology

Professor of Town and Country Ministries

Phone: 816-245-4862
E-mail: shannon.jung@spst.edu

Presbyterian Church, USA (PCUSA)

Food for All: The Moral Issue of the Century
Practices of Care in Rural Congregations and Communities, with Jeanne Hoeft and Joretta Marshall

Books

Hunger and Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2009).
Sharing Food: Christian Practices for Enjoyment (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2006).
Food for Life: A Spirituality and Ethics of Eating (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2004).
Moral Issues and Christian Responses, 7th edition, co-edited with Patricia Beattie Jung (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Press, 2003).
Discovering Hope: Building Vitality in Rural Congregations, with David Poling-Goldenne (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2001).
Moral Issues and Christian Response, 6th edition, co-edited with Paul Jersild, Dale Johnson, and Patricia Jung (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998).
Rural Ministry: The Shape of the Renewal to Come, coordinating editor with Sr. Pegge Boehm, Deborah Cronin, Gary Farley, Dean Freudenberger, Judith Heffernan, Sandra LaBlanc, Ed Queen, and David Ruesink (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).
Rural Congregational Studies: A Guide for Good Shepherds, with Mary Agria (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1997).
We Are Home: A Spirituality of the Environment (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1993).

Chapters in Books

Three lectionary articles in Feasting on the Word, David Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, eds. (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming).
"Eating Intentionally," in Justice in a Global Economy: Strategies for Home, Community, and World, Pam Brubaker, Rebecca Todd Peters, and Laura Stivers, eds. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).

Articles

"God's Diet and the Retraining of Desire," @This Point (on-going).
"The Theology of the Food Crises," @This Point (October 2008).
"Fasting and Feasting: Two Practices for Lent," The Lutheran (March 2007).
"Sharing as a Central Practice in the Economy of God," Journal of Lutheran Ethics (January 2007).
“Connected to the Land: Tasting the Goodness of God,” Lutheran Women Today (October 2006).
“Saying Grace: The Theology of Eating,” Church & Society (November/December 2004). Associate editor of issue which was devoted to “The Agricultural Revolution.”

“Report from Chernobyl: European Churches Respond to Environmental Concerns,” The Presbyterian Outlook (June 25, 2001).
“Jorden och Guds ekonomi,” Jord och pengar: Jordens bruk I teologisk, etisk, ekologisk och ekonomisk betysning, Skara stift och Kyrkvagens forlag (1997).
“The Farm Family as Christian Witness,” Word and World (Fall 1997).

"Practicing Care in Rural Congregations and Communities" (panel presentation at Town and Country Consultation, Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, Missouri, October 6, 2008).
"Who Gets to Eat" Beyond the Complicity of the Affluent" (lecture presented at Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio, October 1, 2008).
"Eating as a Spiritual Practice" (presentation with Patricia Beattie Jung at the Church Women United Annual Meeting, Independence, Missouri, June 20, 2008).
"Food and Feasting" (Bible study at the Nebraska Annual Conference, United Methodist Church, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 12, 2008).
"Creative Practices for the New Rural" (lectures given at Columbia Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, May 6-8, 2008).
Course on Eco-Justice (Institute of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, July 9-19, 2007).

Synod Higher Education Committee (2007-present )
Heartland Presbytery, Member (2005-present)
First Presbyterian Church, Andrew, IL: Moderator (1997-2005)
John Knox Presbytery (1988-2005): Officer, Commissioned Lay Pastor Committee (1996-1999)
Parkville Presbyterian Church: Parish Associate, Parkville, MO. (2005-present)
Partners in Small Church Strategies, PCUSA, national committee (1987-1989)
Presbytery of the Northern Plains (1979-1988)
Rural Ministry Staff Support Team, PCUSA, national committee (1989-1992; 2003-present)
Preaching and teaching in various local congregations