I’m honored to be featured at The Local Cook’s Food and Faith Challenge today, writing on the connection between Faith in God and our health. Here are a few excerpts from my post: Certainly this God who cares for the sparrow cares for our health. He wants our bodies to be proper temples of the [...]
Tags: faith·guest post·health
Why sacrifice? Why suffer on purpose? During the season of Lent, Catholics and many others choose to accept suffering, even bring it on themselves through voluntary sacrifice called fasting. To the outside observer, it may seem meaningless, even a bit insane to call suffering a form of prayer. I couldn’t disagree more. I’ve mentioned before [...]
During this season of fasting, it is appropriate for us to reconsider our spiritual relationship with food. Beyond counting calories or even finding nutrient-dense or frugal foods, let us consider the social and environmental cost of our food. Catholics believe in the mystical Body of Christ, meaning that everyone who is a child of God, [...]
Tags: CAFOs·Catholic Social Teaching·environment·factory farms
This is my brain. This is my brain on grains. :-} I have been reading so many words I can’t pronounce these past few months and wishing I had kept little index cards like a college student as I try to unravel the story of grains. It’s tough to wrap my brain around! It’s soaking [...]
Why not? The Church does. We decorate our houses for everything from quasi-religious holidays to seasons in our culture. I say: why not make Lent a time where even your house slows down and fasts from culture? Note: This post was originally published for Lent, 2009. If you’ve actually been around that long, pat yourselves [...]
Tags: decorating·Lent
Food is pretty important at holiday times. Food binds us together as families when we figure out who is bringing what to the potluck, it creates lasting memories, and it allows us to have something to do when we all get together. I’m willing to bet that more traditions are based around food than any [...]
What are you doing this week to make Christmas holy? I have to admit, I started the novena to the Infant Jesus one day late, then forgot the second day. So I’m not doing that one. I need to refocus (again, didn’t I just do that Friday?) on the point of the holiday. Join me? [...]
Tags: Advent
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