I have already said that the position I am arguing for here is not food egalitarianism, or worse, food relativism. There is no neutrality anywhere, including in the kitchen and dining room, and this means that in principle we can say that “this food” is better than “that food.” But when we do, we are …
CREC Summer Stuff
One of the heartening signs of future growth in the CREC has been the development of summer camps for our young people, thereby indicating that we are having to deal with more and more of them. One was Summer Sanctus, a montage of which is below. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have two separate …
Lesbians Who Aren’t Really
I am not sure that any young people read this blog, but, if they do, this post might be a good one to get some parental guidance on first. I generally sleep like a pre-Cambrian rock, but occasionally I wake up in the middle of the night, and am wide awake for an hour or …
Next Act in the Goon Show
As Chesterton put it, people who don’t stand for something will fall for anything. In a time when murky thinking reigns supreme, it is not surprising that we have gotten to this . . . what? travesty? outrage? goon show?
No. Just In Your Case
When we gather together like this, we are gathering as the people of liberty. But two other l’s are constantly beckoning—those of legalism and license. Having the history we do, we have little trouble rejecting legalism, but in our emphasis on Christian liberty, we often—especially among our young people—veer into license. When this starts to …
Without Guilt, Without Shame, Without Fear
Our modern world is full of eating disorders of various kinds. These range from the obvious, like gluttony, anorexia and bulimia, to the not so obvious, like being way too obedient and servile to the latest food guru. These problems rest on a common foundation, which is father hunger, coupled with the resultant guilt and …
The Authority of the Table
The most important things about food are the companions, seated around the table. The second most important thing is the table itself, the fact of the gathering. The third most important thing would be the quality of the food consumed. We learn all of this from the First Table, the Lord’s Table, and we are …
The Constitution and Character of Rasputin
I need to continue a bit more on “how we know things about food.” In this post I am going to wax a bit autobiographical, and I hope that’s all right with everybody. This is not so that I can talk about me, but rather because I can’t talk about how I figure things without …
Deep Affection for America
Today is the 4th of July, and we have been free of the tyrannies and predations of the House of Hanover for 232 years now. Tyrants and predators have not disappeared from the earth however, and so this evening I would urge everyone to set off a firecracker or squib as a kind of taunt …
Hippie Mama Free-Range Macaroni
Okay, what causes what, and how can we know? Let’s talk a bit about stewardship, epistemology and food. One of the central problems in food debates is the conflicting nature of multiple claims made about food. And in order to sort through all of it, we have to address the question of knowledge. In a …