you’re invited to be part of a book group for Lent
What do the fields, rivers, and streams that provide food have to do with the God who created them?
How do we become at home in this world where so many hunger for food, for companionship, or for the presence of God?
Clearly, such questions go to the heart of who we aspire to be as people of God, and particularly how we understand ourselves as Disciples of Christ, with our emphasis on the openness of Christ’s table.
As an invitation to feast at the table of God’s word, The Hunger for Home explores the deepest human longings for home through the simple ingredients of bread, water, wine, and stories. Matthew Croasmun and Miroslav Volf read the meals of the Gospel of Luke as stories of God eating with God’s people. By making a common home with us in this way, God turns all our meals into invitations to eat in God’s home—a home with a seat open for all who are willing. No longer is bread simply fuel for getting through the day, but also a call to be present to the agricultural workers, grocers, chefs, friends, and strangers with whom food connects us: everyone God is calling to the banquet.
You are invited to purchase a copy of this book in your preferred format and join us on Tuesday evenings for conversations about the hunger for home. The group will gather in Thomas’s study, Tuesday evenings at 5pm, for about an hour, beginning February 13th. Please register, so Thomas can be in touch about details.
By walking us through the Gospel of Luke, Croasmun and Volf help us see why the meals we eat, and who we share them with, should be a foretaste of our eternal home. The result is a very practical, and very moving, book―indeed, I would say that reading the book is itself a spiritual exercise. I warmly recommend it, therefore, to pastors, church groups, theologians, or anyone else who is trying to live a faithful life.
— Kevin W. Hector