For all celebrating the resurrection of Jesus today, here is one of my favorite hymns. My grandmother told me once that when she was babysitting a 3-year-old Alison on Easter in Pennsylvania many years ago, she caught me sitting very close to the TV, intently watching a program that seemed intense for a child. She said, “Alison what are you watching?” Apparently I was watching an Easter history special. I turned to her with equal intensity and replied, “What’s the matter Granny? Haven’t you ever heard of the resurrection of Jesus Christ?!”
“I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness
Where is death's sting?
Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.”
—“Abide With Me” by Henry Francis Lyte
We just sold homemade superfood chocolate at our first farmer's market. Here's a look at what it was like - and what we learned for successful sales!
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The call every farmer dreads but knows will come someday: your cows are in the road.
I got a few “cholesterol is bad for you” comments on my coconut oil homemade chocolate, so I figured I’d repost this interview with Dr. Makary. When people get a high cholesterol diagnosis, the doctor often says “stay away from high cholesterol foods like eggs.” This doctor is uniformed due to massive corporate food & pharmaceutical spending. When someone has high cholesterol, it is almost always due to eating processed carbs/sugars and other inflammatory items like processed seed oils or glyphosate. The body’s natural healing response to this inflammation is to produce cholesterol. Stress can also cause this reaction. Dietary cholesterol is almost 0% of that # you get from the lab. Our bodies, especially our brains, need cholesterol. The bad medical advice is how we got a country where 1/3 of the entire population is on statins and almost 50% of men over 75 take the drug. According to a study done by UCLA, patients studied with early mild cognitive impairment taking ...
Thankfully my dad loves chocolate. Plus he gave me the recipe so we know he likes this kind! I had 34 bars leftover from the farmer’s market. Time to make some more!
I thought of you when I saw this news story about an innovative educational program in Florida middle schools. I would be interested in more if you could land an interview with the people involved.
The Church is the cover job for big business to move in and gut the place. History repeats itself. But this time, Evangelicals are playing the role Jesuits used to play in the operation.
Deep in the Amazon, the Gospel Arrives by Boat
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/deep-in-the-amazon-the-gospel-arrives-by-boat/ar-AA1KdpXy
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The spiritual battle in the Amazon is also reshaping the world’s biggest rainforest, environmentalists and indigenous leaders say. Brazil’s evangelicals have forged alliances with right-wing agribusiness groups and landowners who have thwarted moves in Congress to protect the forest.
Missionary activity could accelerate the erasure of indigenous culture, threatening communities that environmentalists say safeguard the Amazon. Deforestation rates in indigenous lands are more than 80% lower than elsewhere in the Amazon, a 2024 study by U.K. and Brazilian researchers showed.
“We’re facing extinction,” said Eládio Curico, a leader of the Kokama people.
He ...
