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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. It would be an understatement to say that I enjoy books. I am continuously perusing Amazon to see what is new, wishing I had money to buy the book. These are some of the books that I have read and enjoyed as it relates to developing my passion for food and theology. The list will forever be in flux, but hopefully you will find it helpful. The books are listed alphabetically by author’s last name, not in order of preference. Ad Hoc at Home. The Brewmaster’s Table...
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June | 2014 | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. Book Review: Slow Church. June 2, 2014. June 3, 2014. Century taught us anything, it taught us that efficiency, calculability, predictability and control are to be most prized, seen most readily in large, corporate chains, most notably McDonalds. Machine-like speed and efficiency are now virtues, celebrated even in our churches. How many people can we get in the door on any given Sunday? How many people have prayed the prayer? How many people have we baptized? Much of...
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May | 2014 | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. May 7, 2014. Or do we receive. Does it even matter? Recently I have been reading. Cultivating Reality: How the Soil Might Save Us. In short, even though it is only one word difference in the question, I think it is of vital significance that when we approach the Table, we receive. The Elements, never taking. What then are the implications of taking the Elements versus receiving the Elements? Contrary to taking, when we receive the elements from one another, we receive...
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Book Review: Slow Church | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. Book Review: Slow Church. June 2, 2014. June 3, 2014. Century taught us anything, it taught us that efficiency, calculability, predictability and control are to be most prized, seen most readily in large, corporate chains, most notably McDonalds. Machine-like speed and efficiency are now virtues, celebrated even in our churches. How many people can we get in the door on any given Sunday? How many people have prayed the prayer? How many people have we baptized? Much of...
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December | 2013 | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. An Ode to Potatoes. December 27, 2013. Potatoes. They seem so innocent. So cheap. So accessible. So versatile. Providing starch to any meal. Oh so comforting. But healthy? Ponder with me for a moment the most common uses for a potato:. Scalloped potatoes or Potatoes au Gratin. French fries and potato chipsenough said. Next. Scalloped Potatoes or Potatoes au Gratin. Look at the ingredient list potatoes, cream, cheese. Why do we like this dish? Baked potatoes. On th...
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The White Stone: September 2011
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Who can give a man this, his own name? Thursday, September 29, 2011. Are all of us narrow and exclusive? The Reason for God part 9). I'm reading through Tim Keller's book "The Reason for God" and taking my small group through a DVD study based on the book. Over the next few weeks, I'll be blogging about the book, the study, and the discussions occurring in my group.). In my last post, I wrote about the three ways our culture attempts to deal with the problem of the divisiveness of religion:. If we are ho...
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The White Stone: November 2012
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Who can give a man this, his own name? Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Advent and Christmas resources. My friends from the Evangelical Center for Spiritual Wisdom. Have compiled a great list of spiritual resources to help you enter in more fully to the Advent and Christmas season. Check out some of these great ideas:. Use an Advent Calendar. Make an Advent Wreath. Silence and Other Surprising Invitations of Advent. By Enuma Okoro (Upper Room, 2012). God With Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Christmas.
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The White Stone: November 2011
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Who can give a man this, his own name? Saturday, November 26, 2011. A Double Advent (repost). I wrote this post in December of 2009, our last Christmas without children). Joy to the World! The Lord is come, let earth receive her king! Let every heart prepare him room…. Preparing room in our hearts for Jesus. Isn’t that what the Advent season is about? But how does one actually prepare for an event as monumental as the arrival of Christ into the world? Are we prepared to welcome this infant into our lives?
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April | 2014 | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. The Stories that Shape Us. April 24, 2014. This past Holy Week, I had the distinct pleasure and privilege of hosting, what was for me, my fourth annual Passover Seder ( Here are some of my thoughts from the first Seder. The Seder is as close to a family tradition that Claire and I have in our few years of marriage thus far, and I hope it continues to be something we look forward to and cherish each Easter season. This year was no different. This idea made me ruminate ...
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Remembering the Passover | Christian Epicurean
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Where Food and Spirituality Collide. April 26, 2011. Claire and I are in a small group through our church in which we are reading A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. By Donald Miller. Through the process of writing a screenplay for his own life, Miller discusses the elements that make a good story. Miller’s hope is to awaken people to live an epic story a story that involves sacrifice and conflict and a story that is bigger than the American dream. Published by Jewish Voice Ministries International.
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