Sacred Time: Eating (10.12.14 Sermon Audio)
October 15th, 2014 | John Chandler
As we continue our journey through reflecting on time as a sacred reality, John Chandler invited us to think about how to think of the sacred potential of the activities we already do. This week, we focused on eating.
Here are the quotes and links mentioned:
- Nothing is more pleasing or heartening than a plate of nourishing, tasty, beautiful food artfully and lovingly prepared. Anything less is unhealthy, as well as a desecration. — Wendell Berry
- Another way to put it is that eating a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent, energy-wise, of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home. … If we each ate the equivalent of three fewer cheeseburgers a week, we’d cancel out the effects of all the SUVs in the country. Not bad. — Mark Bittman
- Practically speaking, a Christologically formed remembering of food will lead us to a careful examination of the food eaten at table. Questions of the following sort will be given serious consideration: Does the food we are about to eat reflect production practices in alignment with Christ’s desire that creatures be whole and well? Were food providers honored for their work? Were they able to work in creative ways that encouraged participation in God’s creative ways with the world? With respect to the food itself, we will ask if the soil and water from which our plants grow are healthy and clean. Are biological rhythms and ecological integrity observed? Were the animals respected and treated with care? And with regard to the eating practices, we will ask if the food eaten is distributed in an equitable manner. Does the eating we enjoy deprive others of the ability to eat well? Is food being grown and distributed in a way reflective of God’s desire that all be fed? — Norman Wirzba
- Kitchen Maid with the Supper at Emmaus
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