Saturday 30 January 2021
Because Valentine’s Day arrives in mid-February and is such a consumer-oriented celebration of cards, candy, flowers, and gifts, we think about this as a month all about love. Besides that,…
Read PostSunday 27 December 2020
If you were around children and youth during the holiday season or even during the last few months as schools were doing online and hybrid learning, those young folks were…
Read PostSunday 29 November 2020
Reading the newspaper, watching television news, and pondering the weeks ahead as Christmas approaches, has me thinking about “P” words. Pandemic First and foremost is the pandemic which is…
Read PostSunday 01 November 2020
As we await a most turbulent election—and what is bound to be its aftermath—it’s hard to think about gratitude and being thankful, which should be our mindset during November. It…
Read PostWednesday 14 October 2020
Were you as delighted as I was to learn that the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Program? It was wonderful to know that people recognize the…
Read PostSunday 04 October 2020
Our congregation’s Hunger Advocacy and Awareness Group plans an annual field trip to a hunger-related site. One of the places we have visited is Dream of Wild Health farm in…
Read PostSunday 30 August 2020
After this summer of 2020, it’s no surprise that we find ourselves thinking about how one thing relates to another – and to another. As we have lived with the…
Read PostSaturday 01 August 2020
I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis as the title of a new book appears as if it were a mistake in printing, but that’s the…
Read PostWednesday 24 June 2020
I write this in mid-June with recent information from Second Harvest and Hunger Solutions before me.* Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic brought increased food shelf usage to many, but…
Read PostSunday 31 May 2020
I know about footprints, especially as the snow melts and the muddy season arrives each spring. But what on earth, you ask, is a foodprint? While I was checking information…
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