When I first encountered real hunger in Appalachian Tennessee, having read “Pinocchio” helped me understand what I was seeing.
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Pinocchio and Appalachian Hunger
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From Spiritual Hunger to Obesity Epidemic
Spiritual Sunday My wife Julia has been telling me about a book that she’s reading, Geneen Roth’s Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything. The thesis of the book seems to be that overeating, like other compulsions and obsessions, is a means of escaping a spiritual emptiness. Or to put it another […]
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