The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
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| Author | Elissa Altman |
| ISBN | 1452107599 |
From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that fancy is always best. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le...
| Author | Rachel Marie Stone |
| ISBN | 0830836586 |
Food is the source of endless angst and anxiety. We struggle with obesity and eating disorders. Reports of agricultural horror stories give us worries about whether our food is healthy, nutritious or justly produced. It's hard to know if our food is really good for us or for society. Our relationship...
| Author | Nora Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0375705635 |
In the highly praised memoir Things Seen and Unseen, Nora Gallagher reflected on a year of spiritual renewal and the fact of mortality with uncommon wisdom and grace. We rejoin her in Practicing Resurrection as Gallagher searches for direction in the wake of her brother’s death. A desire to reclaim...
| Author | Sara Miles |
| ISBN | 0470481668 |
"I came late to Christianity," writes Sara Miles, "knocked upside down by a mid-life conversion centered around eating a literal chunk of bread. I hadn't decided to profess an article of doctrine, but discovered a force blowing uncontrollably through the world."In this new book, Sara Miles tells...
| Author | Jennifer Grant |
| ISBN | 1455578827 |
An engaging and hilarious collection that encourages readers to tackle those strange, awkward, worrying, yet endlessly compelling passages of the Bible. The Bible is full of not-so-precious moments, from murder and mayhem, to sex and slavery. Now, an incredible cast of contributors tackles the...
| Author | Leighton Ford |
| ISBN | 0830835164 |
Your attention, please. That's what God wants, Leighton Ford discovered. It's the path to becoming like Christ. Distractions, fear and busyness were keeping Ford from seeing God's work in and around him. He was missing God. So he began a journey of longing and looking for God. And it started with paying...
| Author | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 1630881244 |
A shocking discovery of hidden family secrets leads to profound revelations of faith.
Heidi Neumark’s life changed when a few computer keystrokes exposed a generation of family secrets. Late one night while her family slept, Neumark discovered her hidden Jewish heritage—and uncovered...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0824518780 |
“Maybe the time has come to let go of my prayer, my effort to be close to God, my way of being in communion with the Divine, and allow the Spirit of God to blow freely in me.” p. 6
A couple of weekends ago, I had a mini-retreat. There was no one else home and I wanted to spend some time with just one book....
Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there s a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the...
| Author | Sue Monk Kidd |
| ISBN | 0824947061 |
This book was the breath of fresh air I've been needing for a long time. I love SMK's writing, especially her spiritual writings. This book is a compilation of all the short narratives she wrote for Guideposts when she was just starting out as a writer. I usually write down quotes that I love from books I'm...
| Author | Stanley Hauerwas |
| ISBN | 0802864872 |
A loving, hard-working, godly couple has long been denied a family of their own. Finally, the wife makes a deal with God: if he blesses her with a child, she will dedicate that child to God’s service. The result of that prayer was the birth of an influential -- some say prophetic -- voice. Surprisingly,...
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| ISBN | 0310286182 |
Is Your God Big Enough to Be Questioned? The freedom to question is an indispensable and sacred practice that is absolutely vital to the health of our communities.According to author David Dark, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion, and when it only brings...
| Author | Tony Jones |
| ISBN | 0787994715 |
What the "Emergent Church Movement" is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this new kind of Christianity looks like. Writing "dispatches" about...
| Author | Jen Pollock Michel |
| ISBN | 0830843124 |
As Christians, we're squeamish about desire. Isn't wanting sinful and selfish? Aren't we supposed to find and follow God's will rather than insisting upon our own? The story of each person is a story of want desires unmet, hopes dashed, passions pursued and ambitions fulfilled. Our wants cannot be...
| Author | Adam Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0687649692 |
Everyone agrees that America is polarized, with ever-hardening positions held by people less and less willing to listen to one another. No one agrees on what to do about it.
One solution that hasn't yet been tried, says Adam Hamilton, is for thinking persons of faith to model for the rest of the...
| Author | Richard J. Foster |
| ISBN | 0060836970 |
Too often, our study of the Bible focuses on searching for specific information or some formula that will solve our pressing needs of the moment. But what if we approached the Bible differently, and instead of transforming the text to meet our needs, allowed it to transform us?
That's exactly...
| Author | Josh Packard |
| ISBN | 1470725924 |
As millions of church members fall into inactivity each year, they've probably also started skipping church on Sunday.
We need answers—not statistics. We need to understand and hear from people who are leaving church so we can find a way to turn around the trend.
This book uses...
| Author | Robert Farrar Capon |
| ISBN | 0375760563 |
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling...
| Author | Norman Wirzba |
| ISBN | 0521195500 |
This book provides a comprehensive theological framework for assessing eating's significance, employing a Trinitarian theological lens to evaluate food production and consumption practices as they are being worked out in today's industrial food systems. Norman Wirzba combines the tools of...
| Author | Miroslav Volf |
| ISBN | 1579106412 |
Since the rise of modern industrial society, work has come to pervade and rule the lives of men and women. Although there have been many popular books on the Christian understanding of work, this is the first scholarly effort to articulate a developed Protestant theology. Volf interprets work from...
| Author | Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |
| ISBN | 0802848648 |
“Like any other life-sustaining resource,” says Marilyn McEntyre, “language can be depleted, polluted, contaminated, eroded, and filled with artificial stimulants.” Today more than ever, language needs to be rescued and restored. Drawing on a wide range of sources, both critical and...
| Author | Ellen F. Davis |
| ISBN | 0521732239 |
This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the geography,...
| Author | Carole Counihan |
| ISBN | 0415977770 |
Food touches everything important to people: it marks social difference and strengthens social bonds. Common to all people, it can signify very different things from table to table.
Food and Culture takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic role of food. The stellar...
| Author | Daniel Taylor |
| ISBN | 0970651155 |
When it comes to God, there are believers and there are skeptics. But there are also Skeptical Believers, a particular kind of believer who lives with an Inner Atheist that is constantly raising objections. The Skeptical Believer is a book about making peace with your Inner Atheist, and about working...
