healthy food - Building community at the food pantry - SIBEJO

As a Christian, I highly recommend "Take This Bread" by Sara Miles for those working on food ministry projects.  The author was raised an atheist and experienced a conversion when she walked into an Episcopal Church one day.  At the church, she founded a food pantry, housed...

healthy food - "Volun-tourism" - is it a good thing? - SIBEJO

Over the weekend, the Today Show has a segment on "volun-tourism," people using their vacations to do volunteer work.It sounds great, doesn't it?  Visit some new and interesting place and do some good while you're there.  And I've done it myself, if you count church mission...

healthy food - Can emergency food programs end hunger? - SIBEJO

Although it was written in 1998, Janet Poppendieck's book, "Sweet Charity?  Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement," has much to say to us today.The book describes food charities (food banks, food pantries, community kitchens) functioning as a moral safety valve which have...

healthy food - Toxic Charity - how our efforts to help may actually hinder... - SIBEJO

Have you read the book, "Toxic Charity" by Robert Lupton? This is a book primarily about churches and the charity projects they undertake, but it has lessons for all of us working to build a better world.Two themes that really resonated with me (and I'm sure there may be more...