What began as a simple gesture in the 1970s has grown into a cross-country friendship spanning decades, generations and nearly 3,000 miles.
What began as a simple gesture in the 1970s has grown into a cross-country friendship spanning decades, generations and nearly 3,000 miles.
The children of Bethesda Mennonite Church in Henderson, Neb., raised funds in June for Mennonite Central Committee food baskets, full of staple items like grains, as well as the oil and salt needed to turn ingredients into filling meals. They raised over $14,000.
I think nature’s economy gives us a glimpse of God’s intent for us, a way of living in the world but not of the corrupt, unjust system that has come to be.
At food aid sites in Gaza, Israeli soldiers and drones are murdering people as they come to get food in the midst of a famine. It reminds me of a far less deadly (but still treacherous) entrapment stew in scripture.
For most of human culinary history, we knew hyperlocal plants’ attributes. We knew the vegetables and herbs and fruits and nuts and fungi personally.
