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Apr 12, 2012
Community Post (The Middle: A Place to Grow)
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Though we try to mark beginnings and endings when it comes to growing food, planting and harvesting aren't really the work of gardening. They are just the ceremony. The rituals of tending and... Read More + |
Nov 22, 2011
What Was I Thinking When I Signed up for the Food Retreat?
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I’m at this retreat listening to Cliff and Christine Warner talk about their family with its wonderful Sabbath tradition of sharing carefully planned meals with their children...They seem to be... Read More + |
Mar 27, 2011
Coming To The Table
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I keep hearing people ask the questions: "What can I do?" and "Where do I begin?" These people stand looking out across this great big world of ours with all of its moaning and groaning and - in... Read More + |
Mar 14, 2011
Book Club: Thoughts on Home
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As we come to the end of our journey through The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers On Feasting and Fasting Toward God, it feels like we have traveled to faraway places and now breathe the contented... Read More + |
Feb 28, 2011
Frail Communicants
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She could not move her arms or legs but she used her eyes to punctuate her words. There were times when she would cry and I would lean over her still body to daub the Kleenex at her lashes--pat... Read More + |
Feb 14, 2011
Food that Feeds
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The sky is that same saturated blue that I squeezed from a tube of paint this morning and the sun climbs. Day after day of white above and white below has leeched my cheeks of color—whitewashed... Read More + |
Jan 31, 2011
Table Grace
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This is week five of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into... Read More + |
Jan 24, 2011
Eating Well
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This is week four of our book club discussion on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God, edited by Leslie Leyland Fields. Join us every Monday morning as we dig into... Read More + |
Jan 7, 2011
In the Company of Onions and other Love Stories
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Attention book club participants: Leslie Leyland Fields is offering our HighCalling book club participants a special price on The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting toward God. ... Read More + |
Jan 3, 2011
What the Earth Gives
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I am walking with my boy and my dog on New Year’s Eve, stepping light and enjoying unseasonably warm weather. We feel the freedom of shedding the winter trappings—no hat, no gloves, no puffy... Read More + |
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Daily Reflection From Laity Lodge
Add to the Beauty
During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +
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