At Jesus’ Table: Monday, Honey

I declare that I will bring you up out of the misery of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ Exodus 3:17 For a people living in slavery, a people who had to work harder and harder […]

At Jesus’ Table: Introduction

For past Holy Weeks I prepared daily devotions for my congregations. Some of these have been shared online, including this series. What follows is the introduction to “At Jesus’ Table.” My favorite description of Jesus is the accusation the Pharisees made about him in Luke 15:2, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Yes. […]

What Have You Been Reading?: The Supper of the Lamb

“O Lord, refresh our sensibilities. Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in, and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with, and casseroles that put starch and substance in […]

The Giving Garden

On the first Saturday of March, we planted our spring crops at Selah Community Garden of Center UMC: carrots, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, and more. This is our second year, and just like last year, there was beautiful weather in the weeks leading up to our kick-off. Then things got cold. Again. Just like […]

Recipe: Sausage Balls

This Tuesday starts one of the highest, holiest holidays in my family: the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament. Nothing elicits the mania of eastern North Carolina natives like ACC basketball. I remember a TV being wheeled into the classroom and the games being on while we did worksheets in school. It has always been a big […]

The Resurrection of Compost

“But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or some other […]

From the Dirt

“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” -Genesis 3:19 As a society, a people, we have done our best to escape the dirt. Dirt is dirty, after all. We […]

Recipe: Aunt Pearl’s Sweet Potato Biscuits

Seeing as how my hope for this blog is to share with you the practical ways I experience and live out my faith in God, and seeing as how part of that experience is the sharing of food as God’s gift to us, and seeing as how I genuinely enjoy cooking and eating food, it […]

Cooking: Making Love Delectable

Earlier today my wife asked me to make some lunch for her. This is not an unusual request for us. I love cooking almost as much as I love eating, and I can frequently be found in our kitchen, doing one or the other of those activities. So she asked me to make her some […]

What is Agrarian Theology?

A practical lens for looking toward and working with God.