The Kitchen Meditations team is taking a break to rest and enjoy time with family and friends. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! See you back here next Sunday, Jan 2nd as we begin new kitchen meditations on fasting & feasting, diet culture, and clean eating.

When you think of love, do you think of boxes of chocolates and bouquets of flowers? Or do you think of the screams of a mother in the final stages of giving birth? In this final Advent episode, we’ll take about the ways God shows us love through labor and how we might sense that love in the work of our own hands. 

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Whenever we’re hurting or we’re overcome by the weight of the world, joy seems like it should be the last thing on our mind. Advent invites us to see the tension of both joy and hardship through a different light. In the midst of holiday parties and celebrations, what might it look like to allow yourself to delight in the fullness of God’s creation?

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We’ve all sat through an awkward meal before—the kind that brings together family members with all kinds of opinions. Maybe you’re the kind of person that comes to the table gunning for a fight. Or maybe you’re the kind that wants to keep things calm at all costs. What does it mean to pursue peace around the table?

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Do you enjoy sharing meals with friends? Do you prioritize sitting at the table with others, or is it something that you fit in between all the other busy things? Eating together with others is a primary means by which God addresses our need for community.

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Thanksgiving is a complicated holiday. It’s a day for laughing with cousins, feasting on turkey and pumpkin pie, and arguing with family around the table. What do we do with the historical realities behind the holiday, though? What might it look like to begin this turkey day with confession then thanks?

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How the Civil War created Thanksgiving

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How much time or mental energy does grocery shopping take up for you? Is it a cause of stress or a point of joy? In today’s episode, we’re talking about what it means for food to be good, and how this can help us approach our grocery shopping as a way to celebrate the gifts of God. 

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Kitchen Meditations, a podcast from Edible Theology starts next Sunday, November 14th!

In Christian tradition, we believe that God meets us each Sunday at the Communion table, in a meal of bread and wine. On Kitchen Meditations, we're going to look for the ways God also meets us at the kitchen table on all the days in between. Whether the kitchen is a place of stress or a place that brings peace at the end of a long day, whether you love cooking or loathe it, you still need to eat.

I'm Kendall Vanderslice, baker, writer, and author of We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God. Our relationship to food is complex, but God meets us in the kitchen and at the table. Through these reflections on the mundane tasks that shape our daily lives, along with cooking tips and prayers for sacred, ordinary moments, you'll taste a bit of God's hope and healing every time you eat.

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Reflections on cooking to help you taste God’s goodness in each bite.

Whether the kitchen is a place of stress or a place that brings peace at the end of a long day, whether you love cooking or loathe it, you still need to eat.

Baker and writer Kendall Vanderslice (author of We Will Feast: Rethinking Dinner, Worship, and the Community of God) understands the complexity of food—as well as the ways God meets us in the kitchen and at the table. Through these reflections on the mundane tasks that shape our daily lives, along with cooking tips and prayers for sacred, ordinary moments, you'll taste a bit of God's hope and healing every time you eat.