What Not to Eat
I recently watched the documentary Food Inc. and it blew my mind. This documentary goes deep into the United States food industry to show viewers where our food actually comes from. This movie aimed to show how the way...
Movie Mondays!
Here at ELCA World Hunger we’ve been watching films on hunger and poverty and preparing study guides for your use. Over the summer I will be highlighting some of the films that you may want to use for an...
What I learned at City Hall
It’s late and I just got home from a City Planning Commission meeting. Admittedly, I stayed late chatting with Commission members. I went as a member of the public as I was interested in their topic of the evening: housing....
Cigarettes and cultural/social change
I really appreciated Mark Goetz’s June 11 post, “Ziplock Bags and Deliberated Choices” about decisions that we don’t make ourselves but let the dominant cultural “flow” determine for us. Swimming upstream is hard work. Ridicule is usually involved, as Mark...
I think I’m in the right place
Hello readers! I’m the other World Hunger intern for summer 2010, Julie Reishus. Today is day eight of this amazing internship experience, and so far every day has been energizing, convicting, affirming, and challenging. I am sincerely thankful to God...
Hello Hunger Rumblings Readers!
My name is Allie Stehlin and I am an intern at ELCA World Hunger this summer. I am a senior at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and am studying Political Science, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies. I...
Ziplock Bags and Deliberated Choices
The following was written by guest blogger, Mark Goetz. I love ziplock freezer bags. They are handy and durable, seal well, and don’t take up much space in a drawer waiting to be used. In the freezer and refrigerator they don’t...
Twenty-something gardeners
So what’s the scoop on twenty-somethings and vegetable gardens? My brother and I were talking this afternoon about all the people we know of, our age, who are beginning to grow their own food. I think that this is very...
Major recipient of aid here
Last week I posted the suggestion that the way in which depictions of those who are hungry often make them less than human. I wondered how we could possibly see their full humanity (along with all their power and dignity)...
“I Am” the Gulf Oil Crisis
For me, the prime benefit of the accompaniment approach to global mission and development is how it prods us to replace “over there” thinking (as in, “let’s pray or send money to those poor folks suffering somewhere else from a...