vol. 9, num. 3 :: 2010.02.05 — 2010.02.18
Some churches reserve it for special occasions or limit the frequency of its observance in order to maintain its specialness. Other churches define all of their worship services by it, believing the community has not truly come together unless it was around the table. Why communion?
Growing a church community around the centrality of the shared feast.
Is the devil really in the details?
A reflection on a full-bodied model for teaching, celebrating and practicing communion.
Word play leads to serious food play when it comes to communion.
On discovering the weight of the sacred meal.
A review of Nora Gallagher's book The Sacred Meal.
On learning by observation how to defeat death with a cold beer.
On modeling Christ as a guest at the table.
Kiera Feldman reports on modern conveniences that are helping us ruin the best part.
Christine Sine follows the trail from an Ethiopian feast to the altar.
Conan says goodbye with wise words that speak to the past, present and future.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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