
matter matters.
One sweltering day last summer I locked myself in a back bedroom at a friend’s lake house. While she watched my kids (thank you!!), I spoke on the phone with an old college friend who started a bakery.
We talked about the spiritual significance of ordinary, physical tasks; the theology of bread; the ways American evangelicalism can sometimes skew a little…Wonderbreadish.
Now, at last, that interview is out in the real world!
Read it here: Make Real Things, Bake Real Things | Common Good Magazine
This piece will help if:
- you have ever wondered what the heck is the point of your physical tasks
- your pre-kid serene, focused quiet times turned to chaos and mess when you had babies, and it’s never been quite the same
- you ache to make, wear, eat, and use real things instead of fakey cheap homogenous mass-produced substitutes
- you have learned to love the rhythms of liturgy not despite but because of the repetition.
If any of that is you, this is for you.
Big thank you to my old college friend David McKinnis (of Nightingale Bread in CO) for this deep, fun, and moving interview. We talked for hours and I’ve thought of it many times since. Thanks for your generosity!
Make Real Things, Bake Real Things | Common Good Magazine
“Matter matters. I fry eggs for school breakfasts, lug library books, lay cool washcloths on fevered foreheads. It’s glory work, holy as hallelujahs.”
— Jeannie Whitlock