Food and the Kingdom
by Peter J. LeithartCarol Wilson’s For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Foodis a well-researched and illuminating piece of social-scientific scholarship on the New Testament.Picking up on recent work that places Matthew’s gospel in a Greco-Roman imperial context (e.g., Warren Carter), Wilson focuses . . . . Continue Reading »
The Animal with Logos
by Phillip CaryIn Genesis the goodness of creation requires what I have called a logic of otherness , in which dualities that could become divisions or antagonisms are united for the good. The basic structure of this logic is: (1) first one, then the other, (2) the one for the good of the other, and (3) the one . . . . Continue Reading »
Not Your Dad’s Laffy Taffy
by Sally ThomasTour this selection of religiously-themed Halloween candy at Belief.net. And I’d be curious to find out: 1. Do you celebrate Halloween at all? Why or why not? 2. If you don’t, do you just ignore it, or do you do something alternative instead? In the interest of transparency, we do do . . . . Continue Reading »
Friday Abstinence and Christian Culture; or, Nobody Said Anything About Not Eating Ice Cream
by Sally ThomasLest anyone think that Fridays in my house are all dolor and sacrifice and Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, let me say a few words now about homemade ice cream. Among other things. First let me say that until about two weeks ago, I’d never made ice cream. When my husband and I married, nearly twenty . . . . Continue Reading »
Meatless Friday
by Sally ThomasWe have company coming for lunch today, and I’ve stopped counting the times somebody in the household has passed me here at my desk to ask what we’re having to eat. FOOD, all right? Now pick up that Q-tip and get back to dusting the settee.Being a Southerner, I generally have a ready . . . . Continue Reading »
Celebrating the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
by Sally ThomasWe like observing saints’ feasts, maybe because we like feasting, period, and any excuse will do. I have in my time made rosary cakes for the Feast of the Holy Rosary and lavender butter for the Assumption, when herbs have traditionally been blessed; my friend Debbie, mother of Annie the . . . . Continue Reading »
Want Iconic BBQ?
by Sally ThomasOne word. Corky’s.[Biased Memphis Rating: . . . . Continue Reading »
Some Like It Purgatorial
by Sally ThomasNow, in Memphis, Tennessee, where I come from, barbecue is a religion, and if I haven’t heard of miracle healings and raisings-from-the-dead attributed to somebody’s secret sauce recipe, surely it’s because I wasn’t paying attention. Being from Memphis, and subscribing as I . . . . Continue Reading »
Am I the Spread of Life?
by Sally ThomasWhy is it that when people discern bearded faces in their food, they assume them to be the countenance of the Lord?For some reason, Great Britain has in recent years been home to a number of food apparitions. You could say, of course, that the British have the best food in the world, and then they . . . . Continue Reading »
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