09/30/2018
Genesis 2:4-25
Kendall Vanderslice
Kendall Vanderslice is a graduate of Wheaton College and Boston University (MLA Gastronomy). She is a student at Duke Divinity School and author of an upcoming book on dinner churches: We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God(Eerdmans, 2019).
“The fruit of that tree was food whose eating was condemned to be communion with itself alone, and not with God. It is the image of the world loved for itself, and eating it is the image of life understood as an end in itself.” -Alexander Schmemann
“Generational storytelling with an open mouth and a heaping spoon.” -Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros
“…there is a common sense that something holy, something transformational, something grace-filled [happening at the table]…“As a result the Eucharist may indeed provide a way forward, and a way for this divided suspicious world to find its way to an alternative and holy vision of what it means to be in community.” -Larry Goodpaster
“The Eucharistic table can hold the entire world around its borders and issue a call for justice and solidarity, salvation and liberation.” -Claudio Carvalhaes
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
The Earth is Yours by Gungor
Blessed Assurance by Crosby/Knapp
All Creatures of Our God and King by Francis of Assisi/von Brachel
We Will Feast in the House of Zion by McCracken
Jesus, What a Beautiful Name by Riches
Psalm 126 by Wardell
Doxology
Further Reading:
Soil and Sacrament by Fred Bahnson
The Bible and Ecology by Richard Bauckham
Bringing it to the Table by Wendell Berry
The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
A Meal with Jesus by Tim Chester
Culture Making by Andy Crouch
Scripture, Culture, & Agriculture by Ellen F. Davis
Dinner Church by Verlon Fosner
Culture Care by Makoto Fujimura
The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
Take this Bread by Sara Miles
For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann
Eat With Joy by Rachel Marie Stone
Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Warren
Food and Faith by Norman Wirzba
