Food
- Slow down: prepare it and savor it
- Give thanks: to God, the land, the preparers
- Show hospitality: invite others to dine and share with strangers
- Eat in community: unifying source of social pleasure
- Enjoy food: eating is a sensuous activity; enjoy taste buds
- Eat justly: eating affects others; support ethical practices
- Fight global hunger: keep others in perspective
- Develop taste: expand your palette and appreciate quality food
- Eat humbly: eat with thanksgiving and awe for the beauty
Music
- Kuyper: there is no sacred/secular divide; God is in everything
- Calvin’s “sensus divinitatis”: implanted understanding of God in all of us
- Ways to support artists: spread the word, allow for commercialization, invest in their word
Alcohol
- Drink until you hit sweet spot: after sober but before drunkenness where connections happen
- Having no alcohol can make us rigid and legalistic, while too much cedes control to addition and escape
- Receive it (from God) rather than use it
- Ask how this [blank] communicates beauty
- Not just about what I get but about what God gives
- Christ, culture, and community