New research into ancient Mongolian burial mounds, known as khirigsuurs, is challenging long-held assumptions about the scale of communal feasting that took place at these monumental sites during the ...
It is June. Christians from liturgical traditions have just finished the season of Eastertide, or Paschaltide, which extends from Easter to Pentecost. It is now the season of “Ordinary Time”—often ...
Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people travelled to feast together at the end of the Bronze Age. In the largest study ...
Feasting on the Word Curriculum: Teaching the Revised Common Lectionary—a groundbreaking, lectionary-based curriculum that is centered on the popular Feasting on the Word commentary series—is adding ...
Deuteronomy offers a surprising method for becoming just disciples. In the Old Testament, Israel found herself surrounded by monarchies and empires with powerful rulers and highly stratified societies ...
As the festive season lights up homes across India, it also brings with it a rhythm of restraint and indulgence, with fasting before festivals and feasting during celebrations. From Navratri fasts to ...
Yes, it’s good to be healthy and fit. Yes, it’s good to care for our bodies. But it’s good to feast, too. It’s good to sit down with family and friends and joyfully partake in the bounty of the season ...
Coming together for a solstice feast in ancient Peru. Robert Gutierrez, Author provided Gilgamesh’s antagonist, Enkidu, is described as a wild man, living with the beasts and eating grasses with the ...