Posts By: Anitra Kitts

Fasting is One Spiritual Discipline

We fast for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes we abstain from food for medical tests or surgery. Sometimes we fast as a way to “cleanse” or give rest to our digestive system. Sometimes we fast as a form of protest,…

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Of Seasons, Tomatoes and other Signs of Life

This week marked the end of tomato season, my third since I started pushing little tiny seeds into 1” seed trays. This is the first fall where I made a decision to end the season (tomato plant euthanasia?) rather than…

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A Really Interesting Garden Program

In Portland Oregon, a non-profit is going after hunger by setting up gardens in backyards and apartment landscaping. They work with low income families to set up a garden and set up a long term relationship with a “mentor” that…

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God at Play

I have nothing particularly wise or illuminating to say at the moment. I just want to show you what I found in my garden this morning – my first home-grown Eggplant. Pretty cool, eh? My seminary theology professor taught that…

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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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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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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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Sacred Risk

I do not have (to the best of my knowledge) any DNA links to the Chinook people of the Pacific Northwest, nor to any other Native American peoples. I am, however, a daughter of Oregon where I spent over 4/5th…

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Everybody Look What’s Going Down

The headline that grabbed my attention was posted on March 29th, 2008, High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest (New York Times). The author, Keith Bradsher, writes from Hanoi, “The price of rice, a staple in the diets of…

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