Christmas Gift Guide: For a Real Foodie

I love food, and I love to cook. That is about the only “expertise” that I will claim in sharing this list. Over the past several years, as I have learned more about our food system’s impact on our environment and on our health, I have grown increasingly committed to using food as a...

November 23rd, 2012 | Food and Drink | Read More

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November 22nd, 2012 | Food and Drink | Read More

The Cook Book

The red and white checkered cookbook splays on the table between us. The book bears evidence of sixty years of careful use. Red electrical tape binds the cover together, and sections of the book turn freely from the binding. The pages, while worn, appear well-preserved — lacking the glued together...

July 2nd, 2012 | Essays, Food and Drink | Read More

Ingesting God

Growing up in the Methodist Church, it seems we were regularly celebrating communion in new and different ways. I appreciated the diversity in approach, as each new form somehow brought out a different aspect of the act of remembrance. One form, however, I remember more for the laughter it produced,...

April 25th, 2012 | Essays, Family, Food and Drink | Read More

Eternity in a Latte

For the past three weeks I have spent a lot of physical and mental energy on latte art. Why latte art? Because after an hour of pouring drink after drink and drinking drink after drink the act of pouring a rosetta with silky steamed milk into the crema of a freshly pulled espresso melds with the overdose...

April 16th, 2012 | Culture, Essays, Food and Drink | Read More

Eating, Talking, and Plotting Goodness

Conspire! magazine is a project of The Simple Way and a growing number of “co-conspiring communities” around the country. Each themed issue includes great writing and visual art, all with an eye toward building relationships and exploring “the questions of faith that arise from living...

October 24th, 2011 | Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

Love Hurts

My love of drinking is no secret to anyone who knows me. The taste, the laughter among friends, the lack of self-consciousness…each are parts of a whole that have had me smitten since the first few clandestine beers out in the woods with my mates. When I got older, I found scotch. Oh, baby. I remember...

February 11th, 2011 | Culture, Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and The Life…and Your Only Ticket to Six Pack Abs

Do not fear Christians, I come to bring you good news of great joy for all people! Especially you, fatty! Two thousand years ago when Jesus came to Earth, He not only died for your sins on the cross to give you eternal life, He also gave you the secret to finally fitting in those (modest) skinny jeans!...

August 23rd, 2010 | Culture, Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

Speaking the Language

My wife and I were enjoying dinner at a small family gathering in Ohio when the conversation brought me back to one in Korea. We’ve only been back for just over a month, so it doesn’t take much for my mind to wander over the Pacific. This memory was different, as it brought a new insight...

August 4th, 2010 | Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

Hop Churching – IPAs

A few years ago, three of my best friends and I bought 24 different India Pale Ales, took them down to a beach house at the Oregon Coast, and held a blind taste test. The results were satisfactory enough, with each of us determining which IPAs we favored, but the test was run haphazardly. I dumped...

April 23rd, 2010 | Featured, Food and Drink | Read More

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