Word: emmaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...food are close company in the Old Testament and the New-from that first bite in Eden, through the Passover meal and the manna from Heaven, to the feeding of the multitudes and the Last Supper. The resurrected Christ was specifically recognized by the breaking of bread at Emmaus (Luke 24:30, 35), by eating a piece of broiled fish in Jerusalem (Luke 24:42), and by cooking breakfast for Peter and his friends (John 21:9-12). Such scriptural sources and sauces have been tapped for a brand-new manual of Christian cookery, The Bible Cookbook (Bethany Press...
Less than a year later, there were close to a dozen trucks and a community of the poor, called Emmaus,* working together to collect and process the junk that keeps them alive. Today, three years later, the community has mushroomed to three villages, where no families and 200 single men live in wheelless freight cars, old buses and corrugated metal shanties...
...blind obedience will lay down their lives to defend Him. Dostoevsky presents a symbol of Christ as the silent Visitant whose burning love will take nothing less than inwardly free men as his companions . . . Is it to be the Jesus of the Nazareth workshop, the Christ of Emmaus, the Jesus of Bethany with his beloved friends, or the Christ on the cross, a bleeding and suffering Redeemer? Or is it to be all of these at once...