|| LIRS || Advocacy Update -- June 2008

|| LIRS || Advocacy Update -- June 2008

Rising Food Prices

Rising Food Prices

Take the Five-Day Solidarity Challenge: For five days, eat as half the world’s population does, with meals of oatmeal, rice, beans and vegetables. Set aside the money you would have spent on additional groceries to redirect those dollars to help alleviate hunger by making a donation to Bread for the World or your denominational hunger program.

Brief Thesis on Prayer

One way to talk about prayer is to say that prayer is Christ speaking to the Father, and we chime in (the Lord's Prayer), or it is the Spirit groaning (Romans 8) when we are no longer articulate and lack words. In this way prayer is precisely NOT talking to yourself. It is our way of participating in the divine conversation. We pray "in" God either through the Word or through the Spirit, "as" Christ or groaning as creation enlivened by Spirit.

We are "praying animals." It is a central, if not THE central aspect of our humanness. We pray.

The Feed - Out of a Church Kitchen and Into the Courts - NYTimes.com

The Feed - Out of a Church Kitchen and Into the Courts - NYTimes.com