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2011-09-24T05:00:11-04:00

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A Good and Perfect Gift

Last updated on: September 24, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

My fellow Her.meneutics blogger Amy Julia Becker has a new book, A Good and Perfect Gift: Faith, Expectations, and a Little Girl Named Penny. It’s a beautiful book, a powerful and important book, a book to read, ponder, and discuss. At birth, Amy Julia’s daughter, Penny, was diagnosed with Down syndrome. The hopes and plans she and her husband, Peter, had for the baby suddenly changed, and Amy Julia found herself wrestling with big questions–why was Penny born with an... Read more

2011-09-23T05:00:12-04:00

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goat farm

Last updated on: September 23, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

No, they aren’t worshiping the goats. They are letting the babies nibble their hair. Nothin’ like getting nuzzled by baby goat lips! My guys. They love the goat dairy. I do too. (And goat cheese! My goodness–it was delicious!) Read more

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2011-09-22T05:00:29-04:00

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Who Would Jesus Feed?

Last updated on: September 22, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

A recent study from the US Department of Agriculture noted that more than one in five children in the United States lives in a household that struggles to put enough food on the table. Among Latino children, says the organization Bread for the World, it’s more than one child in three that’s at risk for hunger. Ivone Guillen, immigration policy fellow at Bread for the World Institute, noted that while many immigrant families might qualify for programs such as SNAP... Read more

2011-09-21T05:00:01-04:00

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Fake Gluten-Free Girl

Last updated on: September 21, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Are food preferences ever a way of putting disordered eating into more socially acceptable forms? As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, my dad has Celiac disease, and in him, it was the really dramatic kind of Celiac, with massive weight loss, terrible anemia, mouth ulcers, and a host of extremely unpleasant gastrointestinal problems. When he was diagnosed in the mid-80s, it was after several years of invasive testing, during which it was thought by some that he must have... Read more

2011-09-20T05:00:13-04:00

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Boston Brown Bread, Baked Beans, and Apple Pie

Last updated on: September 20, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

“…times have changed. But some things haven’t. We still need food. Food’s still a gift. We still need each other. And it’s still those things–not money, not the economy, not our ambitions–that bring us joy.” It’s Tuesday, which means we’re spending it with Fannie Farmer! This week, my journey into the Fannie Farmer cookbook took place {mostly} on Saturday, when I decided to try and replicate Mr. S’s mother’s traditional Saturday night dinner: Boston Brown Bread (baked in an old... Read more

2011-09-19T05:00:23-04:00

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What do you think of the Paleo Diet?

Last updated on: September 19, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

A reader has asked what I think of the Paleo diet. In case you haven’t heard of it, the Paleo diet is an eating plan based on the idea that human bodies are adapted/evolved/designed to eat a hunter-gatherer diet. According to its proponents, our bodies were not (and are not) adapted to handle the Agricultural Revolution (~10,000 years ago, generally regarded as marking the beginning of human civilations and culture building). Foods produced by agriculture–plant and animal–are, therefore, considered biologically... Read more

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2011-09-18T05:00:01-04:00

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(Swiss) Chocolate Roll Recipe (Gluten Free!)

Last updated on: September 18, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

(plus a powdered-sugared cat.) When I was a little girl, my very favorite snack cake–the kind that comes wrapped in plastic–was the Swiss cake roll. (Is there also a brand called Yodels?) I don’t think I had them very often, but I sure liked them. I liked the way they looked, and the texture created by many small layers of “creme” and cake. Because my dad has had severe celiac disease since I was 5–and has thus been totally gluten-free... Read more

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2011-09-17T08:42:47-04:00

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Weekend Eating Reading: The More-with-Less Cookbook

Last updated on: September 17, 2011 at 8:42 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Oh, the More-with-Less Cookbook! How I love this book! “Green” and globally aware before it was trendy, really simple way before Real Simple; a Christian response to global hunger that involved so much more than writing a check to a relief organization. Commissioned by the Mennonite Central Committee in 1976 “in response to world food needs,” this cookbook was ahead of its time in its awareness of how personal food consumption is connected deeply to poverty and want in other... Read more

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2011-09-16T05:00:07-04:00

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Moment of Joy

Last updated on: September 16, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

Inspired by Amanda Blake Soule’s {this moment}, I’m following a Friday ritual: posting a single photo–no caption, no words–from the week capturing a moment or an idea expressing something related to {family, faith, food; joyful justice & bread of life} —a Moment of Joy. If you would like to do the same, leave a link to your photo in the comments! Read more

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2011-09-15T05:00:39-04:00

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God’s Love Made Delectable

Last updated on: September 15, 2011 at 5:00 am By Rachel Marie Stone

For Norman Wirzba–whose previous books include The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight as well as a collection of Wendell Berry’s agricultural essays–food is “God’s love made delectable.” He says: “Every time we eat we are making a choice that is personal, but it is also social, ecological, agricultural and spiritual.” Choosing food that has been raised in ways that honor the animals, people, and land is... Read more

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