Eating Locally
I recently finished reading Barbara Kingsolver’s new book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, a captivating story of her family’s efforts to eat locally for an entire year. From one...
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Suffering and Abundance
“When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice” (John 10:4). Any time sheep are mentioned in the Bible people sometimes go a little...
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Fasting Against a Divided Body
One of the great joys of our EP Gatherings is eating together. We break bread with friends old and new, discovering at a common table our common life in Christ. That makes it all the more painful that...
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Reality Hunger
Deuteronomy 30:15-20; Psalm 119:1-8; Matthew 5:21-37 Reality hunger. I read a book by that title last summer and the title, more than the book, describes what many of us are feeling these days. We...
View ArticleThe Shepherd Who Feeds Us
Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalm 23: Ephesians 2:11-22; Mark 6:30-34; 53-56 Eighth Sunday After Pentecost Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time There is striking beauty in the appointed texts for this weekend. And...
View ArticleQuestions for a Picnic
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:1-5 Romans 8:35-39 OR 9:1-5 Matthew 14:13-21 What does is mean to be fed, to not know when or how our bodily needs will be...
View ArticleCreatures Who Eat
Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24:35-48 “When the risen Christ eats with the disciples it is not just a way of proving that he is ‘really’ there, it is a way of saying that what Jesus did in creating a...
View ArticleWho Is This?
Thirteenth Sunday afar Pentecost Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time John 6:56-69 It is at the eucharistic table and in our liturgies that we likely most often encounter Jesus’s words in the gospel of...
View ArticleA Morsel From Your Hand
Third Sunday after Pentecost 1 Kings 17:8-24 As I lifted my eyes from the letter I was writing seated in the bookstore café, I searched for a thought while I watched a woman ride in the door on a...
View ArticleTwo Meals in the Holy Land
By Jana BennettTwelfth Sunday After Pentecost 1 Kings 19:4-8 Psalm 130 Ephesians 4:25-5:2 John 6:35, 41-51 This week’s scriptures present us with two very different kinds of meals – yet each helps us...
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