Back to Eden Cookbook or Making Room

Back to Eden Cookbook

Author: Jethro Kloss Family

This book is a golden treasury of recipes and priceless information on natural foods for health and healing. The Kloss family selected 240 tempting recipes using simple, economical foods with taste appeal and proven balanced nutrition without any artificial or refined ingredients.

Interesting textbook: Chinese Cuisine Taiwanese Style or John Barleycorn

Making Room: Recovering Hospitality As a Christian Tradition

Author: Christine D Pohl

Christine D. Pohl's book Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition has helped foster renewal of the central but long-neglected practice of Christian hospitality. This new study guide for Making Room provides a variety of ways in which people can learn more about the practice. Designed for use by small groups -- though individuals will also profit from it -- the study guide is divided into nine lessons paralleling the chapters of Making Room. Each lesson begins with an introduction briefly highlighting the main points of the corresponding chapter, followed by sections on group building, Scripture, discussion, reflection, and personal application. Each lesson also provides aids for group leaders and activities to help participants make the practice of hospitality part of their daily lives.

Publishers Weekly

Christine Pohl addresses a surprisingly undiscovered topic in Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition. Far from a Martha Stewart handbook for Christians, Pohl's work focuses on the nitty-gritty of forging community hospitality, as evidenced in such organizations as The Catholic Worker, L'Abri and The Open Door. Hospitality, she writes, should be more about welcoming strangers than friends and family.

Christian Retailing

"Making Room is a welcome reminder that as God's people we are all called to be hospitable to others, whether or not we have what some call "the gift of hospitality." The book would most appeal to those desiring to make a difference in the lives of others through hospitality."

Books & Culture

Casual readers beware: Making Room is guaranteed to challenge even the most complacent Christian. You are not likely to walk away from this book unchanged.

CBA Marketplace

"[Pohl] effectively weaves biblical insight, historical precedent, and practical wisdom, exploring how concern for strangers has been normative from ancient times. To revitalize this "moral dimension," Pohl challenges readers to move beyond their safety of hosting people within their familiar social or economic world. While contemporary examples focus on intentional Christian communities—such as L'Abri or the Catholic Worker—the book has rich implications for house- or church-based ministry. Ultimately, readers from any church background will learn that as they make room for others in their homes, more room will become available to them to receive God's blessings."

Table of Contents:

	Preface
I	Remembering our Heritage
1	Introduction: A New Look at an Old Tradition	3
2	Ancient and Biblical Sources	16
3	A Short History of Christian Hospitality	36
II	Reconsidering the Tradition
4	Hospitality, Dignity, and the Power of Recognition	61
5	The Strangers in Our Midst	85
6	Hospitality from the Margins	104
III	Recovering the Practice
7	The Fragility of Hospitality: Limits, Boundaries, Temptations	127
8	Making a Place for Hospitality	150
9	The Spiritual Rhythms of Hospitality	170
App	Communities of Hospitality	188
	Select Bibliography	196
	Index	201