This Thursday, as part of our Maundy Thursday/ Holy Week service. I was asked to help serve communion. Communion has always been a powerful metaphor and symbol of my faith, however I did not expect to find serving communion so meaningful. After a little …
John 6 is a dense chapter with lots of little episodes. The chapter starts with Jesus feeding a crowd of 5000 men, (plus likely an equal number of women and additional children), with 2 fish and five loaves. There are 12 baskets of leftovers. The …
One of the books that got me thinking about the theology of food this year is Take This Bread by Sara Miles.
Miles has a background as a journalist and a restaurant cook. She wandered into church one Sunday, participated in communion, tasted Jesus in her mouth and wanted more. She went on to start a food pantry right in the sanctuary of that very church. This memoir is a fabulous story of what happens when we get a chance to taste and see just how good Jesus is. This is not the story that I expected it to be, but is wild, free, engaging and true.
The book is available at Amazon. Purchase it through these links and I’ll get affiliate credit. Otherwise Richard and I have two copies and you can certainly borrow from us. Let me know what you think once you’ve read it.
Food, is one of my favorite ways to be creative. Especially when I have a chance to feed people. Cooking for myself is ok, but having people over to sit at the table, to catch up on life, to eat and to laugh is one …