Created to Eat [Kendall Vanderslice]

Created to Eat [Kendall Vanderslice]

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

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