Food Justice as Integrative Healthcare for Creation by Miriam Dolin Food justice has long been a passion for me. To be fair, anything to do with food is a passion for me. I love making food. I love thinking about flavors and textures and imagining how I can create something beautiful and delicious. I love the smells of cooking. I love eating food. I believe food is beautiful. I love wandering around the aisles of grocery stores admiring the shapes... Read more

Food Justice and Overabundance by Rev. Daniel Wolpert Every time I walk into a grocery store I’m overwhelmed.  This has been happening for awhile now.  I just cannot believe how much food is in the store.  A never ending supply, piles of fruits and vegetables, shelves stuffed to overflowing.  And I imagine how it’s this way in every major supermarket store all across the country.  I walk down the aisles and I can feel the excess. When I first began... Read more

At the Mercy of Time by Rev. Ivan Herman Wilderness experts will tell you to prioritize your needs in order to increase your odds of surviving a crisis situation. Most important is shelter, then water, then fire, and finally food. We can survive without food for longer than we can water or shelter. However, in a long-term survival scenario, such simple categorizations break down. Without food, weakness sets in and the will to live and work (and the ability to... Read more

Because It Matters by Rev. MargaretAnne Overstreet I’ve been teaching classes and workshops about food, and the global implications of our daily food choices, for several years. Over the course of those teaching opportunities, I’ve discovered a pair of questions that really gets a lively discussion started. The first question is: What are your values? In other words, what are the ideals by which you live your life, by which you decide right or wrong, by which you choose to... Read more

40 DAYS FOR FOOD JUSTICE: The Prequel Scripture contains hundreds of references to the idea of justice: teaching that it is part of the nature of God, commending the doing of justice as the task of a faithful people, calling for injustices to be remedied, and suggesting that the foundation of broad societal justice is for each person to be living in “right relationships.” The season of Lent (the forty days before Easter, excluding Sundays) is a time when it... Read more