I want Upton Sinclair’s change. I want God’s change. I want the change that gets us out of thinking and living “better grab all that I can get ‘cuz there won’t be enough” and into trusting the life-giving Commandments to love God and to love our neighbor.
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Faith-Community Supported Agriculture (FSCA) Program
For a couple of decades, Community Supported Agriculture programs (CSAs) have been a way for families to partner with farmers and gardeners to get a weekly supply of fresh produce during the growing season. Families or individuals purchase a membership…
Read more »Choices
The little time keeper in the upper right corner of my computer screen tells me that I have about 3 more minutes before my voting station, just down the street at the local grade school, opens up. I’m on West…
Read more »Hopeful Edge in Ending Hunger
This summer, Anna Lappé gave one of the keynotes at the Presbyterians for Restoring Creation National Eco-Justice Conference. You can listen to hers and other great presentations related to Food and Fuel and download conference presentations here. Also, I just…
Read more »Greenpeace Exposes Anheuser Busch’s Use of Genetically Engineered Rice in Beer
I highlighted the dangerous effects of additives on kids below. Now, it looks like Budweiser is experimenting with unwanted additives in a favorite adult (usually) beverage! WASHINGTON – October 8 – Greenpeace released the results of analyses showing the presence…
Read more »When the going gets rough, join God’s holy mission of justice and healing
The Food and Faith Blog highlights ways people are building life-giving food systems based on community, sustainability, faith and love, as well as ways our agri-food systems all too often fail to give glory to God. That is reality, and…
Read more »The Food Literacy Project
On Friday, we were picking up produce to bring over to the Urban Fresh farmer’s market cold storage and I finally had the chance to see the Food Literacy Project, which shares space at the working Field Day Family Farm…
Read more »A Journey Beyond the Horizon
This coming Sunday, I will serve as guest preacher to two yoked congregations in a Northern California farming community. I’m a city girl. This is only my second season of gardening (and the tomatoes are coming on very nicely, thank…
Read more »How Much is Enough?
The suggested Lectionary reading for this coming Sunday is Luke 12: 13-21 – a teaching on Greed. Someone approaches Jesus asking for assistance with a family dispute. Jesus refuses to act as judge but turns the request around into a…
Read more »First-ever cut in state food tax passes in Tennessee!
PHP celebrates the victory of Tennesseans for Fair Taxation (TFT), a group we’ve been able to fund with gifts to the One Great Hour of Sharing. The first-ever reduction of the state’s high food tax has now passed both houses…
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