Every week we gather around a table with intentionality and reverence to share in the Eucharist. What might it mean to treat every meal with such respect? How does our faith inform our relationship to food and how might we explore those connections as a way of adressing health and nutrition in our work with young adults and students? This month's issue of Broadcast continues our series on young adults and health with an exploration of nutrition. Check out the intro video below.
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Many blessings,
Katerina Friesen, The Abundant Table
As a teenager, I was part of a church that celebrated the Lord's Supper by passing around a plate of translucent communion wafers. These flimsy wafers bore a strange resemblance in size and shape to Pogs, small cardboard discs that young adults who were kids during the 90's might remember collecting. The 0-calorie discs of “bread” seemed to dissolve as soon as they touched my tongue, and with a swish of grape juice, I sensed no trace of Christ's body left in my mouth... >>>
Gretchen Sams, Texas A&M University
It is a time in life full of choices and freedoms. Often for the first time, decisions made without the intervention of parents. Some of those choices include areas that will influence your health. Maybe going to the doctor alone or taking medicine without Mom to hand it out seems awkward. Those are obvious new health experiences that usually accompany college life. But what you eat and your nutrition are less a giant step alone and more insidious. >>>
Romi Pierce, Diocese of Missourri
“You are what you eat” is a popular saying to communicate the idea that if you eat healthy foods you’ll be healthy in mind, body and spirit. But what if you can’t help but eat unhealthy foods because healthy foods just aren’t available in your neighborhood? >>>
Erin Martineau, Diocese of New York
About six years ago, the Community of the Holy Spirit, an order of Episcopal nuns in New York, decided to begin growing their own food. As part of a larger desire to heal their relationship with Earth, starting an organic farm was a way to reconnect more deeply with the sacred nature of creation and to live more sustainably. >>>
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