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February 2012

February 14, 2012

How Sweet It Is! Feeling Better about Hershey.

You kind of have to hand it to Americans. We can turn anything into a...

February 13, 2012

If You Love This Land of The Free–Disagree, Disagree

Whenever I write a post--whether for this blog or another--I always have an inkling of...

February 08, 2012

Can I ‘eat with joy’ while my neighbor starves? (Part 3)

This week we've been considering this question: Is it better simply not to know about...

January 2012

January 25, 2012

Discovering Hugo (and you.)

Usually I really don't care what movies are nominated for/win Oscars unless its so that...

January 24, 2012

These are a Few of Life’s Crappiest Things! (Reading Ecclesiastes)

Did you know that this blog got its name more-or-less straight out of a Bible...

January 21, 2012

Using God as Backup for White Middle Class Standards of Beauty

Usually for your weekend reading I post something of interest from around the web. This...

January 16, 2012

Eating With Dr. Martin Luther King

We'll be having a birthday cake today, to celebrate the birthday of the Rev. Dr....

January 03, 2012

Five Food Films Worth Your Time

5. Supersize Me Sure, it's a little gimmicky, but Morgan Spurlock's 2004 film--documenting his 30...

December 2011

December 23, 2011

Some Thoughts on Abundance & Materialism

In Wednesday's post, I attempted to echo Ellen's post in saying that a fleshed-out Christmas--one...

December 20, 2011

So. Many. Cookies!

One of my favorite books of all time--a book I loved as a child and...

December 19, 2011

Is Food Sensual?

Don't read that wrong--sensual, not necessarily sexual. (Although it might be that, too.) sen*su*al |ˈsen...

December 18, 2011

Advent IV

Why lies He in such mean estate Where ox and ass are feeding?Good Christian, fear;...

November 2011

November 28, 2011

My New Favorite Cookbook

Okay, so well before "buy nothing day" I bought myself a present: The Cook's Illustrated...

November 25, 2011

It’s Buy Nothing Day!

I won't be going shopping today, and not just because I live at the end...

November 21, 2011

On Being (or wanting to be) ‘Skinny Pregnant’

Twice in the last week I've been asked how I went from disordered in my...

November 18, 2011

Is it a Sin to Eat Meat?

I have a piece up this week at RELEVANT magazine--a review of What is the...

November 03, 2011

A truly frugal outlook has a long view.

I'm delighted to welcome to the blog today Cathleen Hockman-Wert, the co-author of Simply in...

October 2011

October 30, 2011

Connecting/Celebrating

I've decided to take Sundays off from writing and, instead, post a single photo capturing...

October 29, 2011

When Jesus Was Our Guest

The other night we had a fellowship meal at church. The best part was that...

October 28, 2011

A Mouthwatering Work of Culinary Genius

So between my birthday (last month) and Tim's (yesterday) and the book contract, we had...

October 27, 2011

No Peace at the End of Anxiety

So I signed a book contract this week. I don’t want to share the details...

October 25, 2011

Some Medieval Good Times

[wherein I may lose my pacifist street cred.] Can you bear with a post about...

October 14, 2011

Gifts of Grace in Bread, Wine, and Words

We're back! It was a wonderful trip, 9 days of visiting friends and family, most...

October 12, 2011

Second Generation, Part Two

While I'm away, I've been posting essays, reviews, and articles that have either appeared elsewhere...

October 06, 2011

Another Gnostic Christian Diet

{I'm away this week but will continue to do some (re) posting. This article originally...

October 01, 2011

My (Mis) Adventures in France

One of the major perks of the whole overseas Ph.D. thing was increased travel opportunities....

September 2011

September 29, 2011

Apples! And watermelon! And a distended belly! (and lots of adorable pictures)

This is such a weird time of year. It's technically autumn, but the leaves haven't...

September 21, 2011

Fake Gluten-Free Girl

Are food preferences ever a way of putting disordered eating into more socially acceptable forms?...

September 17, 2011

Weekend Eating Reading: The More-with-Less Cookbook

Oh, the More-with-Less Cookbook! How I love this book! "Green" and globally aware before it...

September 15, 2011

God’s Love Made Delectable

For Norman Wirzba--whose previous books include The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological...