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“Most often, we take up prayer not out of triumphant victory or unimpeachable trust but because prayer shapes us; it works back on us to change who we are and what we believe. Patterns of prayer draw us out of ourselves, out of our own time-bound moment, into the long story of Christ’s work in and through his people over time.”

“Surely it is the highest tribute to the best people we know to use them as best we can, to become, not their disciples, but ourselves.”

“…Let us take seriously the connections between town and country in the recipes and market stands. The mess of greens hiding in plain sight – the connections between people and places that nourish in value both – might then be unearthed.”

Sorry for the three separate posts 😄 for one long quote but this was too good and Goodreads character count is too short!

“Let us instead listen to the messages in the recipes, the signatures, and the organization of cookbooks from women’s groups in places large and small. Let us reconsider the talk, so often dismissed as foolish gossip beside the tables of the Saturday, curb markets as potentially transformative political debate…”

“We cannot speak, if we only use scholarly caution, about Granny Starkweather’s recipe collection or the Junior League cookbooks. We notice them, but we cannot take them seriously or without irony. The friendship and self education of White and Black women in curb markets, selling vegetables, talking with each other, and forging connections across town and country would be dismissed as impossibly naïve…”

“Because food both intimately connects and divides genders, classes, races, and regions, food makes history and culture palpable and palatable. People talk about food even when they are not intending to… and they talk about themselves when they intend to talk about food.”

“Humility is the least self-aware and the least self-conscious of all the virtues. Humility comes from another place. It comes from the place that is always illumined by the Grace, goodness, and glory of God. Humility comes from eternity.”

Kind’ve scared …

Kate Baer is magnificent and that is all you need to know as of right now

Y’all don’t judge it’s for a literal research paper!

“You don’t develop discernment by reacting to evil…This kind of holistic formation is ‘less about erecting an edifice of Christian knowledge than a matter of developing a Christian know-how that intuitively understands the the world in light of the fullness of the gospel.’ In other words, you develop discernment by becoming a person who knows how, and not simply what, to think.”