Browsing: Religion

   Several years ago, I did a deep dive into Psalm 22 and verse 6 in particular. I was dumbfounded when I discovered the message that ‘worm’ taught me. In Hebrew it is called tola-at (tow-la-aht). Although classified as worms they are more like a grub, a scale insect, it resembles a red berry-like insect. The colors crimson and scarlet are very deep, blackish red, which is the color of blood.

     Long before researchers coined phrases like “food insecurity” or “food apartheid,” Black congregations were feeding families abandoned by segregated systems, economic inequality and government neglect. But a new generation of faith leaders is asking a harder question: What if the church stopped merely responding to hunger and started confronting the system producing it?