On the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Jonathan McRay preaches on earth and soil. Jonathan is a farmer, facilitator, and writer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. He grew up in Central Appalachia and worked overseas before feeling called to take responsibility for his life and history at home. He completed an MA in Conflict Transformation and Restorative Justice, during which time he helped found, garden, and mediate for an urban farm, education center, and supportive home. With the Cambium Collective, he organizes and facilitates groups and grassroots organizations to transform conflict, understand power and oppression, and shape liberating practices and relationships so we can grow up. Jonathan cultivates and celebrates beautiful and useful plants with Silver Run Forest Farm, a riparian nursery and folk school rooted in love and living soil, committed to remediating the toxins that pollute our souls, society, and soil, from chemical leaching to white supremacy. Jonathan is passionate about the healthy culture of land care, the playful practice of popular education, community power to resist white supremacy and colonization, movements for restoring and transforming justice, and the renewable use of energy, from sunlight to calories to conflict! He's also learning to give up erosive perfectionism in favor of joyful growth.