I visited Garden Church, a Swedenborgian church San Pedro, California, in pouring rain. While my experience of their worship might not have been quite the norm, I was moved by our meditation on Psalm 46. It is because of communities like theirs that I have hope this Psalm's promise rings true.

cultureKendall VandersliceJanuary 31, 2017garden church, dinner church, reconciliation, food justice, food and faithComment

sweet reads: take this bread

Take This Bread is the memoir of Sara Miles, a woman who never expected to find herself at home in a church. Passionate about social justice, Miles was raised under the assumption that the Church was no space for those who wanted to extend love, instead restricted to the unquestioned faith of fundamentalists.

sweet readsKendall VandersliceDecember 6, 2016communion, Eucharist, take this bread, book review, food justiceComment

just food: violence, justice, and a path to reconciliation

Princeton Theological Seminary’s 2nd annual Just Food conference opened on Thursday evening with a worship service that held together the brokenness and the freedom of tending the earth. Open our eyes to the victims of violence, to the plight of the poor, to the ones who seek justice, to the ones who seek peace, teach us compassion and love, we sang in prayer.