a slice of: chocolate red wine cake with spiced goat cheese frosting

Enjoy this recipe for a tender chocolate and red wine cake topped with mulled wine syrup and goat cheese frosting, the perfect winter dessert.

practice joy

While I use the process of creating food as a spiritual practice, the rhythmic kneading of bread an embodiment of my prayer practice, I don’t find the process of eating the works of my hands all that fulfilling. I’m driven by what happens when I share my creation with others. Their joy.

faithKendall VandersliceDecember 13, 2016advent, joy, hope, restoration, gratitude Comment

stubborn hope

Advent is my favorite season of the liturgical year.

Or perhaps not necessarily my favorite – I do love the feasts of Christmastide and Eastertide – but it is the season with which I resonate the most.
The tension.
The remembrance of what is already juxtaposed with what is not yet.
The remembrance that Christ has come, the anticipation that Christ will come again.

faithKendall VandersliceNovember 29, 2016advent, christmas, tension, hope, justice, restComment

this year

faithKendall VandersliceDecember 12, 2015advent, sabbath, birthdayComment

on tension and hope

My hope is not a naïve expectation for discord to disappear, but a belief that the God who asks that we eat together in remembrance of Him does change our minds, does bind the hearts of all mankind. It is a belief that my studies are not in vain, that bold expectations for justice are not a waste of time. That leaning into the tensions of the already but not yet, we will find the strength to carry our sorrows in the small, slow glimmers of change.

faithKendall VandersliceDecember 9, 2015advent, conflict transformation, Eucharist, tensionComment

advental anticipation and the blessing of birth

So as I embark on another new year of life, and as we together finish out this season of Advent, I thank you all for the role you have played these past twenty-three years of my life and I pray that together we can continue to live out the tension of our active anticipation, living lives of justice, love, and mercy until the beautiful day of restoration for which we earnestly await.

faithKendall VandersliceDecember 12, 2013advent, birthday, not food Comment