shared meals

Like good cooking, good preaching is local, idiosyncratic, and diverse.

The idea is disarmingly simple: all you need is a dinner table.

We asked readers to write on the theme "feast." Here are the most compelling entries.

"After we receive the bread, we're gonna go to the kitchen," he said. "We have cheese pizza tonight."

"We often have the idea of the feast appearing magically from the kitchen without labor. But the participatory aspect is the most important part of the feast."