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Of Summer Pulpit Supply

Who can earn God’s favor while still in the womb any way? Or earn God’s disfavor while still attached to an umbilical cord? Exactly how much trouble can we get into before we’re even born?

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Encounters

My daughters have converted me. I am a fan of the LOLcats. My particular fix is over at icanhascheezburger.com. LOLcats is part of a larger Internet Thing (also known as a mime) where one thing leads to another and soon…

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obese children

As many as one in three children and adolescents are obese in the United States. Here are some recent articles on the topic thanks to Virginia Clarke of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders: A Plan for Overweight Kids…

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guerrilla gardening, from Heidi

If you want to beautify freeway space, feed the hungry, heal the earth and risk arrest, then guerrilla gardening is for you. This is a brilliant and hopeful new underground movement from a piece of God’s good earth that desperately…

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today? a buffet

I’m leaving town next week for a while and have been squirreling these away, but winter is definitely over. So here is a Smörgåsbord for Food and Faith blog readers. Eat up. Ice cream crisis as bees buzz off The…

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community carrots

Even though I have a small garden of my own to tend to, Saturday morning found me thinning carrot seedlings along a 30 foot row at a local, volunteer-led garden called Harvest for the Hungry. Now in its 20th year,…

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urban harvesting

Urban harvesting in Louisville is especially fruitful in spring. Haeja asked the tree guys for some of the stumps from the maple they were felling and pulverizing down the block. She wants them for a sand box she plans to…

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Tilling & Keeping

“In this sense,” Deffenbaugh tells us, “eating locally is one of the most political activities that we can engage in on a daily basis.”

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