Reflecting on Food as a Language of Culture
Last month Henry and I spent a few days in New York City. One of the places we visited was the food hall known as Chelsea Market. As we walked from specialty shop to food stall to ethnic restaurant, I found myself thinking about food in different ways. I’ve traveled...
Gentrification and Thanksgiving: Pondering a Slice of American Life
Recently we took a pre-Thanksgiving week of vacation in San Diego. On Saturday morning, we went to Barrio Logan, a Hispanic neighborhood we’d learned about online. While we’d read interesting things about the area, we didn’t see much happening, other than a really...
Celebrating Local Desert Artwork
Recently, Henry and I spent a Sunday afternoon in the small town of Tubac, Arizona. Like a number of smaller western towns (such as Silver City, New Mexico, where we used to live), Tubac is surviving, even thriving, by encouraging the development of a tourist-based...Giving Thanks for the Internet
My newest ministry adventure officially “goes public” today. Although Advent begins on December 2, my online retreat on Advent of Jesus through the Eyes of Others begins today. It begins before Advent because I wanted people to have time to get comfortable with the...
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