Having friends, neighbors, and family members around the table is one of life’s best everyday joys. Hospitality is for everyone — you don’t have to serve a five-star meal or have an immaculate house. You just have to extend a welcome, because we’re all looking for a place to belong. For that reason, sharing meals is more than just a socially profound experience. It can actually serve a role in our spiritual formation, too. 

Conversations around the table at a dinner party can deepen our relationships, shift our perspectives, and even mark pivotal moments in our lives. Want to make sure your next meal around the table moves past small talk and into meaningful dialogue? Try these conversation prompts to get things flowing! 

Whether you’re mowing the lawn, lounging by the pool, or carpooling kids to camps and activities, we all seem to have more time for listening in the summer. If you’re looking for something that will feed your soul next time you pop your earbuds in, I have just the thing for you! 

There are so many incredible conversations happening at the intersection of food and faith these days, and I wanted to share a few of my favorites. These podcasts all have many episodes for your ears to feast on, but I wanted to highlight one from each — just so you have somewhere to start.

Our daily routines shape so much of our lives. They can affect our thoughts, our habits, and our priorities. As you say goodbye to the school year and settle into summer rhythms, you may be wondering how to incorporate meaningful time into your days in the sun. Summer is the perfect time to dig into Scripture with your kids — but you may not be sure where to start. Consider these helpful practices to engage the Bible as a family this year! 

Eating and sharing food with others has, from the beginning of creation, been a way for us to delight in the gifts of God and live into the fullness of what it means to be human. But our relationship to food is complicated. As Christians, is there a way to honor God when it comes to food? How can we balance ethics with budget, health with the risk of disordered eating, and kids’ preferences with our abilities? Is there a way to eat biblically? 

Baking with little ones can bring so much laughter and joy into your life — and quite a few well-worth-it messes into your kitchen. Creating and eating something together makes lasting memories — and it can also open up conversations about faith, liturgy, hospitality, and so much more. Who knew bread was such a powerful theological tool in our homes? 

If you’re looking for ways to bring your kids into the kitchen next time you whip up a bread recipe, try these tips for a meaningful baking session! 

Around the world, multitudes of people observe Easter each spring – and many of them honor this sacred holiday by baking and sharing delicious breads. If you’re a connoisseur of Easter bakes, you may have noticed that many of these breads share similar ingredients, flavors, and even techniques! This points to the idea of Christians sharing Easter bread with those around them, which in turn spread sacred baking traditions across the world.

Holy Week is a noteworthy time for Christians around the world. It marks the week of Jesus’s death and resurrection, and many believers observe the entire week leading up to Easter, following God’s journey to the cross. The observance of Maundy Thursday follows this tradition, marking the day before Good Friday.

Easter is the pinnacle of Christian worship. It’s the day that drives everything we believe and do. This Liturgy for Easter Brunch is a prayer you can read together at the table to bring your Sunday morning worship on to your Sunday afternoon feast.

Lent is the forty day fast season leading up to Easter. While not always practiced by Protestants, it is one of the oldest Christian practices—dating back to at least the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Learn more about why we fast in this season and some tips for how you can observe it with your family.

The Tuesday before Lent—known as Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, or Shrove Tuesday—is a time of celebration all over the world. Learn more about the history of this day and the foods served on it, plus tips for how to celebrate it in a way the whole family can enjoy!

The season of Lent is important for Christians, and has been for at least 1700 years. But how do you help your kids engage the season well? Fasting is not exactly their idea of a fun time! Here are some of our favorite resources to share with your kids this Lenten season.

Food is complicated, to say the least! Learning how to talk to kids about food in a way that fosters a strong relationship with the daily practice of eating is tough. Here are 5 simple tips for talking to your kids about food so that they can grow up celebrating this good gift from God.

The season of Lent is almost here. It’s a beautiful time for Christians to slow down and focus on our need for Jesus. Traditionally, it’s a season of fasting. But for some people, fasting just is not an option. Here are three spiritually rich ways you can spend the season of Lent when fasting is off the table.

Are you looking for a way to build richer relationships with your small group, neighbors, or friends? Interested in cutting through the diet culture noise and discovering God’s purpose for food? Then Worship at the Table is for you! Learn how to use the program in your Small group, Sunday School, or neighborhood this Spring.

Do you struggle to get your kids to pay attention during Bible study? Try helping them see the ways God teaches us through everyday actions and items—like the food we eat! Here are some tips for getting kids to fall in love with the Bible: through stories about food.

It’s a new year, which means we’ve all been inundated with recommendations for how to kickstart our bodies, our routines, and our lives.

Our bodies are gifts from God that we are called to steward well. But you know what else is a gift from God? Food. And part of stewardship is appropriately celebrating the gifts that God has given us too.

Let’s look at three simple changes you can make this year to improve your relationship to food and your body.