By Jerram Barrs Flourish, Spring 2012 We live in a culture filled with boredom and cynicism—even among our children. It is a tragic commentary on our culture that you can meet 16- and 17-year-old kids who are apathetic about their own existence and bored much of the time. And it is not only teenagers for [...]
Resources: Food and the Common Meal
In our modern world food sometimes seems to fall as if by magic onto supermarket shelves. Here are a few resources to break the spell and start eating foods locally and seasonally.
It is hard to underestimate the value of sharing a meal with someone. Hospitality is a way to live out the call to love others ar yourself by inviting people into your home and caring for them. Here are some simple tips for how to love people by being hospitable.
Food, like all of God’s creation, was made to be a blessing but is also tainted by the Fall. People starve. We overeat. We undereat. Does the Bible hold out hope for the redemption of eating? Tim Chester thinks so.
Margie Haack, Co-Director of Ransom Fellowship, reflects on the connections between two processes that can’t be rushed: Cooking and redemption.
Creation care means fighting back the effects of the Fall wherever they are found—even in the kitchen pantry. Here is a basic guide to swapping out some common pantry items with healthier, less processed substitutes to make better meals and healthier families.
These days food is sexy and controversial. However, as Ryan O’Dowd reminds us, food has an older, more spiritual meaning that is often overlooked in our modern “food-obsessed” culture: It is a basic part of what it means to be human.
Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, argues that the Western diet can be improved greatly just by following a few simple guidelines for how we buy and consume our food.
A meal means more than just filling up the body’s need for food. In this article Karen Baldwin explores how the table can be the “family center” around which the life of a family revolves and by which a family is nourished.
An interactive map which shows what is in season where in the US.
In The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan takes us on a journey through the modern food system. He explores the industrial food system and how corn goes from a tiny seed in a field in Iowa to processed chemicals in foods everywhere. He also explores the traditional agrarian approach to food and offers it as an alternative to the industrial process.
