Hospitality for the Coming Age

“There is no waste, only creative challenges to find meaning and new opportunity,” I wrote last fall, as I developed my “metaphor for ministry.”
Throughout this year I have continually been drawn to the art of avoiding waste. I have planned many, many meals around food left to rot in seminary fridges (and therefore eaten much [...]

Last week at Bethany we had a conversation about community in this time of economic scarcity. We gathered over rice and beans, free chives, and shared salsa. Here are my notes:

what skills do we have?

Growing food, preparing, preserving

bring our own food to meals instead of paying caterers

eat together more often

what can we share?

rides

books

phone lines, internet

tv, [...]

Can you imagine watching your baby die from drinking milk?! (which the American Dairy Association has convinced us is the ultimate wholesome and healthy beverage).
Not only has milk powder (used in infant formula) from Samlu Group been proven contaminated, but now liquid milk from Mengniu Dairy Group, Yili Industrial Group and Bright Dairy are known [...]