Stephen Webb on why food is simply fuel, and nothing more.

Among the slogans of the recent food movement is the admonition, “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food.” This slogan makes a surprising assumption: that the eaters being addressed don’t know what their food is. You can imagine this shift in consciousness and may have undergone it yourself—while considering your Hostess cupcake or energy drink, you […]

Author Matthew Dickerson explores the use of food in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien, and why food is the defining feature of the Hobbits’ culture.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of three reviews on Terrence Malick’s latest film. In reviewing any new work, particularly one from someone as storied and reclusive as director Terrence Malick, upon whose oeuvre critics tend to either lavish praise or shower derision, one has to gauge the newest constellation against the […]

Writer Alissa Wilkinson reflects on the brunching habits she learned from living in New York City, and the sacredness of eating together.

David Williams reflects on the sources of our Western metaphysics and how they influence our theologies of the Eucharist.

Matt Morin reflects on Augustine what MMA requires of its participants.

A Review of Stuart Murray’s The Naked Anabaptist by Maxwell Kennel.

Editor’s Note: In 2010, The Other Journal published The Spirit of Food: Thirty-Four Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God, a collection of essays and recipes that colorfully depict how our acts of eating echo the community of the church and the sacrament of communion. One of these essays, “The Church Potluck,” which we have chosen […]