I have come to appreciate the gritty and raw story that is Clyde’s. One character describes a sandwich as, “… the culmination of a long hard journey that began with a wheat seed cultivated by a farmer thousands of years ago.” He encourages his peers to pause, and they slowly begin to make connections between their own personal hopes and the wider world through the food they make together. I’ve let the words of the script become a mirror to what we are doing here at New City Neighbors.

A running joke on the farm this Spring has been a quote from none other than the Mattress King. In a recent NPR interview, the Mattress King, who as part of an advertising scheme for his business made a losing bet of 1.2 million dollars on the favored horse for the...

As a Minister of the Word the expectation is that I always be ready to share a word. Pastors give words of comfort in times of pain, words of encouragement in times of trial, and words of guidance in times of confusion. And yet, for the last couple of days, I have had...