The Feast

It was coincidence that I finished The Feast by Joshua Graves the week of Thanksgiving. It is a book that invites you to "feast" on selected passages of scripture and through personal stories helps you digest the ways living as Jesus means today. "The personal is the most powerful" and in the case of this book it was true

To read Joshua's (Josh) personal accounts of ministry in places like Detroit's Cass Park, help me not only see the problems of our own country more clearly, but it inspires me to action. The stories cause me to pause and reconsider who my neighbors are and first recognize that they are there.

I imagine this book would also make for a great group study. The chapters are simple and easy to read, and the book has a nice little study guide with questions you could use for discussion or self reflection.

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I am also thankful to see another book of this calibar come from someone who grew up in the same church tradition as me. That gives me hope.