Food and Hunger

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We should be eating much better-with more zest and fellowship and health for ourselves, justice for the poor who endure hunger and food insecurity, humility before the creation, and gratitude to God. And that's advice from the Bread of Life.

From the Passover feast to the Lord's Supper and banquets in the early church, God's people have been molded by common meals. In Scripture we discover how table fellowship can shape our communi- ties of faith.

Do Christian weight-loss programs uncritically embrace cultural ideals of slimness and distort the devotional significance of the body? While many Christians struggle to be fashionably slim, the poor are emaciated by hunger in developing countries or endure food insecurity in industrialized societies.

When it comes to conquering hunger, "we have what we need to make our way-a world blessed with abundant fertility," Norman Wirzba observes. "What we still await is a culture devoted to the just production and sharing of this blessing."

Christian Reflection is an ideal resource for discipleship training in the church. Multiple copies are available for group study at $3.00 per copy.

The study guides and lesson plans integrate Bible study, prayer, and worship to help us explore Christian attitudes about food and responses to world hunger. The guides can be used in a series or individually. You may download and reproduce them for personal or group use.