The Sacred Meal (The Ancient Practices Series)

\\t\\r\\nThe Parnell Family and Home Education\\r\\n\\r\\n Home\\r\\n About Us\\r\\n Looking for lizparnell. com?\\r\\n\\r\\nThe Sacred Meal\\r\\n8 March, 2011\\r\\n\\r\\nI was looking forward to reading The Sacred Meal. It is part of a series of books on ancient practices. I feel that, in our modern lives, we too readily toss out the old to make way for the new. I enjoy learning what these practices meant to the original people who practiced them and how they relate to our lives now. \\r\\n\\r\\nUpon reading The Sacred Meal, I was sorely disappointed. The Bible is rarely referred to, and even then it is usually indirectly, such as referring generally to a parable or an act of healing. The Christ of the author also seems to not be the same Jesus I read of in the Bible. The Jesus presented in The Sacred Meal was focused on exposing the violence of the Roman Empire in a non-violent way. The Jesus of the book needed to learn to temper his power with vulnerability by spending time with the poor. \\r\\n\\r\\nThe book also reduces the story of Sodom and Gomorrah into a story of social justice. The Sodomites apparently did horrible things by outsourcing the manufacture of clothing to sweat shops. And if there were just ten righteous people, like the man who stops driving one day a week and uses energy saving light bulbs, then Sodom would have been saved. Imagine that, two cities destroyed for lack of energy saving lightbulbs!\\r\\n\\r\\nI couldn't finish the book.