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May 22, 2013
Wednesday Recipe: Truly Delicious Banana Muffins
I still haven’t quite gotten over the fact that things like avocados and bananas are now ‘local food,’ and sometimes very local. It’s a little weird to check the label on my vinegar and see that it has come from France while everything in the guacamole, even the salt, came from right around here. If […]
May 21, 2013
Not Because It Is The ‘Greatest on Earth,’ But Because It’s Mine
I’m not a flag-waving American. I don’t think that my country is the ‘greatest country in the world,’ and I cringe at phrases like “God Bless the USA,” simply because if I’m going to ask God’s blessing on people, it seems a pretty small vision of God’s kingdom to ask that blessing only upon the […]
May 20, 2013
The Worst Hard Time
I’m nearly finished with Timothy Egan’s book The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the American Dust Bowl, and I highly recommend it. As with In the Heart of the Sea, I must confess that part of the pleasure of stories like this are the sense of relief that what is […]
May 17, 2013
Friday Cat
We really have got to get that moth. Or: Beam us up. Or: We are. Awaiting. Our Operating. Instructions. {happy friday.}
May 16, 2013
Stories, Not Pictures: Because, sorry, Dove, ‘Real’ Beauty Can’t Be Captured by a Camera
When I saw this cool post in the UK-based newspaper Mail Online–“Mother Shuns Disney Princess Ideal and Dresses Daughter Up as Five REAL Heroines from History” I immediately tweeted it and shared on Facebook, gushing, “this is fantastic!’ It is pretty cool, these lovely black-and-white portraits replicating signature portraits of notable women, and the current […]
Stories, Not Pictures: Maybe We Could Find Ways Of Celebrating That Don’t Involve Posing For the Camera.
When I saw this cool post in the UK-based newspaper Mail Online–“Mother Shuns Disney Princess Ideal and Dresses Daughter Up as Five REAL Heroines from History” I immediately tweeted it and shared on Facebook, gushing, “this is fantastic!’ It is pretty cool, these lovely black-and-white portraits replicating signature portraits of notable women, and the current […]
May 14, 2013
Eat With Joy on ‘Inside Out’
Talking to Martha Manikas-Foster at Family Life radio is always, always a pleasure. (We’ve talked before about boys and guns and the new domesticity). Recently Martha interviewed me about my book. Below is some of what she wrote about it, and you can listen to our conversation here. Toward the end of her new book […]
May 13, 2013
Eat With Joy And Justice
Do you know PRISM magazine? You should! It’s published by Evangelicals for Social Action, and the latest issue is all about FOOD JUSTICE. Check it out! And while you’re there I’d like to share that the ESA website has a new review of my book, Eat With Joy. Here’s some of what Nicole Brown wrote: […]
May 10, 2013
Friday Cat
And the eternal question is, How in the world do cats make sleeping on a wooden floor seem the most comfortable, appealing thing in the world? {happy Friday}
May 9, 2013
How To Have Your Cake and Jesus Too.
I have a new post up at Relevant, and it’s one that’s dear to me in its concerns, and touches on the heart of what my new book is about. Take a look… It’s been nearly 20 years since Frederica Mathews-Green insisted that Christians dismiss gluttony as a “cute” sin in the pages of Christianity […]
