food and faith
Storytelling, cooking biryani: How displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim women rebuilt community
By Kathryn Post — July 7, 2023
(RNS) — Shenila Khoja-Moolji's new book records the histories of women in her faith community that are absent from religious archives.
`Where the goodies are great’: Sweets lovers welcome Diwali
By Katie Workman — October 20, 2022
(AP) — Although the foods associated with Diwali vary from culture to culture, one central theme is snacks and sweets.
‘Traditional’ Jewish American foods keep changing, with cookbooks playing an influential role in how Jews mark Rosh Hashana
By Deborah Dash Moore — September 26, 2022
(The Conversation) — A historian of American Judaism explains how cookbooks across the 20th century have influenced and reflected the shifting tastes of American Jews.
‘Lent’s Eat’ videos bring levity — and leaven — to solemn season
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 9, 2022
(RNS) — The Rev. Jennie Williams makes a recipe or two from congregants each week of Lent in her Facebook video series 'Lent’s Eat.'
What is the Moon Festival? A scholar of Chinese religions explains
By Mario Poceski — September 17, 2021
(The Conversation) — The Moon Festival, rooted in China’s long history and rich cultural traditions, will be celebrated on Sept. 21. In China, though, the festival is a three-day public holiday.
Pandemic cooking and Jewish food rituals offer comfort in times of sickness
By Hanna Tervanotko and Katharine Fitzgerald — December 21, 2020
(The Conversation) — Food preparation makes the intangible aspects of culture and religion tangible.
Making his kitchen his pulpit, Indian priest highlights the pandemic’s hungry
By Priyadarshini Sen — May 21, 2020
(RNS) — D’Souza’s ‘Food for the Soul’ show has gained over 6,000 subscribers across India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered a nationwide lockdown.
If we’re reimagining church, let’s take it outside
By Jana Riess — April 22, 2020
(RNS) — Anna Woofenden, founding pastor of the Garden Church in California, talks about reimagining church, literally from the ground up.
In a rural corner of Britain, a farm reconnects Judaism with the land
By Catherine Pepinster — May 10, 2019
(RNS) — At Sadeh, a farm in Kent, Talia Chain and her small staff are reconnecting Judaism with its agricultural roots and biblical principles of growing food.
McDonald’s next to Vatican to offer free meals to the homeless
By Josephine McKenna — January 12, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The move could help to defuse the controversy over a fast-food joint opening in the shadow of St. Peter's Basilica.
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