Food, Faith, and Family Food can be a complicated thing. As someone with a horrible track record when it comes to gardening, as much as I love the idea of a huge backyard garden where I grow my own delicious vegetables, it’s nothing more than a pipe dream. (I’ve killed mint. Pretty much anyone will…
As a lifestyle homeschooling family of six, when we moved to the country in 1999, my husband and I had some pretty grand ideas. Buy an old farmhouse, fix it up, grow a big garden, can all our vegetables, and raise chickens. You know, be real farmers. For a few years, we did just that….
By Angela Correll When I was single and living in the city, I never thought about food and faith being connected except that I shouldn’t be a glutton and food shouldn’t become an idol in my life. When I got married and moved to the country, I decided to raise a garden. It would make…
A few weeks ago I created a podcast to help draw awareness to the where food meets faith issue and how it relates to Raspberries and Vinegar. Today I’d like to make it available to all my blog readers. In this 92-minute podcast, I visited with 9 people who live in the USA, Canada, England,…
It’s often hard to live a full life of faith when our world is so compartmentalized and organized according to our calendars. I often tell my husband that if it is not on the calendar, it does not exist. The problem is that when faith is reduced to an element on the calendar- church on…
When Food Replaces God by Janet K. Brown The National Health and Nutrition Survey in 2004 tells us 133.6 million (66%) adult Americans are obese or overweight. A Purdue University study indicates conservative churches such as southern Baptists, Assembly of God, and Church of God fight this battle more often. Richard Kreider of Baylor University…