We live in the midst of two competing narratives. One is the story of Jesus’ abundant kingdom, where all receive enough and often there is extra–sometimes twelve baskets, sometimes seven. The alternative to Jesus’s abundant kingdom for those of us in
Europe and North America, however, is not scarcity. It is rather a more glamorous and alluring kind of abundance. We might call it the abundant mirage. Nowhere are these two competing narratives more manifest than in the way we eat…[read more]
