“A few years ago I served at a church with a weekly free community dinner.

These dinners really brought the community together: we had suburban

churches and synagogues serving food, we had our parishioners helping set

up and clean up, and some of the folks who came regularly to dinner on

Tuesdays also started attending worship on Sundays. And hanging on a banner

above the doors into the parish hall were the Biblical words from today’s

reading that had inspired it all: ‘Anyone unwilling to work should not

eat.’ …NOT.”