By Melissa Wuske Restaurant with a Mission Everytable, a restaurant chain in Los Angeles, has a unique pricing strategy: each one of its locations serves the same food, but the prices vary based on the average income of the neighborhoods where they are located. “Our strategy in general has been to make healthy food more […]
Prayers That Set the Tone—Life Application for July 9, 2017
By David Faust If you strike a tuning fork and hold it near another tuning fork—even when the forks don’t touch—vibrations will pass through the air and the second tuning fork will make the same sound as the first one. Christ is our middle C. We need him to set the tone. The prophet’s encounter […]
The Cookbook: Discovering My Family’s Roots of Faith
By Stef Coleman In my move from rural Tennessee to Chicago, I lost my Dede’s cookbook. I think it was the last copy not yet claimed by friends and family. Somehow in packing boxes and shipping containers, chasing cats into carriers, and coercing my husband to go through drawers, I lost it. That loss wasn’t […]
Rooted and Established in Love
By Kelly Carr I’m fascinated by giant tree roots that become visible—to see the winding intricacies involved in holding up and growing the beauty that rises above. And I love the stories I’ve heard since childhood of trees like the redwoods that thrive on intertwining their roots with others to grow. It’s no wonder that […]
The Real Freedom Fighters
By Karen Wingate Join any July 4 celebration in the United States and you’ll soon hear the words freedom and liberty. Yet in our current culture it’s easy to wonder what kind of freedom the men who drafted the Declaration of Independence had in mind. Freedom to do what? Freedom from what? The Pilgrims, the […]