Education, not disappointment

 
Rob and I continued our path of forming relationships with farmers last night through a 3-hour dinner with our bison farmers from the farmer’s market, Kathy and Ken Lindner.  There is a deep wisdom, accompanied by comfortable kindness, in this couple.  They make you feel at ease, and within moments of talking with them you are assured [...]

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Solidarity

Over the past year, I’ve found that one of the most profound practices of solidarity has come from making my own clothes. Today I made myself a shirt:

So I’m not Donna Karan or anything…I mean, it’s certainly simple. But it’s the work of my hands and I’m proud of it.  Here’s a skirt I’m working [...]

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Avoiding Paralysis

I’ve been sitting here this morning working on writing an article on food justice. As I’ve spent a few hours swimming in grim statistics and passionate organizations for relief/philanthropy/justice/political action, I found myself feeling a little overwhelmed.
It’s hard to take a lunch break right after reading that 900,000,000 people chronically suffer from hunger every day [...]

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Sugar Rush

So the other day my husband and I were once again purchasing sugar from the store. We tend to go with a variety that claims to be vegan, but that’s not why we buy it. Rather, we buy it because it is one of the only bags of sugar that assures us of both organic [...]

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Why We Choose Local

For the past 3 months, our household has been a proud supporter of a local farm, Tierra Miguel, as one of the main sources of our fruits and vegetables. Getting our box every other Wednesday always gives us a feeling of excitement and anticipation–and, every once in a while, adventurousness (“What in the world do we [...]

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Our One Month Experiment

So over the weekend, as the new month began, my husband and I began our one month experiment of living with only one vehicle. Per our agreement, only one of our two cars can be in use at any given time. The other person needs to walk, bike, or use public transportation to get where [...]

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Kenosis

There is a word in Greek–kenosis–that is often used to mean the emptying of oneself. I remember a theology professor of mine once describing it like the carving out of a hollow space, like that of a bowl. Go into any theological library, and you’ll find writings on kenosis up to your ears (and then [...]

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Food, Inc.

Rob and I saw and amazing documentary last night on food production in America called Food, Inc. We knew a lot of the information from our own research, but we were still baffled and disturbed by its contents. I think the information contained in the movie should be known by everyone. I’ll probably blog more [...]

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Voluntary Displacement

One of my favorite books from our one-year journey with JustFaith last year was entitled Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life by Henri Nouwen and others.  In this book, the authors talk about the idea of voluntary displacement–the idea of consciously setting oneself outside of what is comfortable and protective and thus cultivating a [...]

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Trying Something New

As you might have noticed,  I’ve struggled a little lately with regular postings to my blog. This has happened for several reasons…devoting a lot of my time to my MDiv program being one of the factors, but another major one is that my priorities have been slowly shifting over the past year. Because of this, [...]

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