How big a role is our food playing in our daily lives? What does the Bible teach us about the importance of feasting and fasting?
Noted author and editor Leslie Leyland Fields has compiled a thoughtful reflection on food and faith in the book and joins us to reflect on how food draws us closer to God, to community, and to creation.
Here are some of the directions are conversation takes:
Food is a huge part of our lives. It’s the daily sustenance that keeps us going. Yet, we can lose sight of its proper role and become obsessed with it. We can, in fact, make an idol out of food.
Leslie reflects on the miracle of life that causes plants to grow, and how it’s something that can be clearly observed. As we look at that process we are reminded of where we are in God’s creation.
How does food connect us to our past? And how does it point to the love that we share?
There is a difference between meals we share at home as a family and those we eat at work. What goes into that variance?
As we prepare for another Thanksgiving holiday, Leslie notes her belief that Americans simply have too much food. In her mind, we need to know and experience what it’s like to be hungry. She says if we want to really be thankful we need to know hunger. She expands the topic to the purpose and meaning of fasting, offering some advice on how to go about one.
Highlight: Needing to be hungry
What’s behind the practice of blessing our food? Are we missing something key in the way we go about it?
We also have a conversation on the wealth of meaning behind the communion meal.
