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Food is one of our most basic needs, but there’s nothing basic about the issues surrounding its production and consumption. Whether it’s how we grow it, or how we eat it (and how much), or how we share it with those who have less, the church needs to consider how we interact with what we eat.
My history of disordered eating means I practice the spiritual discipline in community and with accommodations.
We’re all having meals by ourselves more often. But in the Christian life, food and community are inextricably intertwined.
News
Ngalakh combines baobab fruit and peanuts to end Easter in West African nation, reciprocated by the sharing of meat breaking Ramadan’s fast.
News
Experts debate the origin of the date- or nut-filled pastry, but Middle Eastern believers love the taste and the Good Friday symbolism in its shapes.
In the village of Kemadang, long dry spells threatened local farmers’ livelihoods until a church-led granary brought hope.
Abstaining from eating confronts the cultural lies we believe about our bodies.
The hope and anxiety inherent in Jesus’ last passover feast
How Judas’s betrayal reveals the heart of misguided hope
Viral Jesus
Learning to keep God front and center prepared this ‘Bachelor’ alum for her true love story.
Review
We often credit the early church with heroic faithfulness. But it was hardly innocent of accommodation and compromise.