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This week we’re bringing you something that’s been giving us a kernel of hope: The story of how — and, more importantly, why — one church in Michigan embarked on an elaborate process to grow their own wheat for Communion bread. In a world addicted to efficiency and convenience, the church experiments with what it means to embrace a faith rooted deeply in place and a commitment to life-giving practices. Along the way, author Liuan Huska unearths ways that patriarchy, commoditization, and capitalism have shaped the bread we break — and how a scattering of congregations are trying something different. —Betsy Shirley, editor in chief
A little over a year ago, members of Ann Arbor’s Zion Lutheran Church in Michigan stood on an L-shaped plot bordering their church garden. Those 800 square feet of ordinary lawn were on the cusp of transformation, about to become the source of Zion’s own Communion bread. While Christians traditionally think of Communion as transforming partakers during the church service, project leader Betsy King-McDonald wanted to explore the life-giving properties of the eucharist at an earlier stage — starting in the soil. “How can we foster life in all the choices we make to the table?” she asked.
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