Nourished: How Ordinary Meals Help Restore the World

By Thomas (Tae Sung) Shin

Hunger is an invitation, not a design flaw.
In a culture that treats food, the body, creation, and even God as commodities, Nourished calls us back to awe and delight. This is neither a cookbook nor a manifesto. It offers no pressure to cook perfectly, optimize the body, or buy the "right" ingredients. Instead, pastor Thomas (TaeSung) Shin asks us to approach food with a different posture: not as fuel to be consumed, but as gift to be received with gratitude.
By reframing mealtime as a daily liturgy, the table becomes an altar of common holiness and the kitchen a sanctuary for the soul. Ordinary tasks such as chopping an onion, packing a lunch, or washing dishes become acts of prayer, patience, and love. At the center of this journey is a profound food spirituality: how we treat our food reveals how we treat the world--and ultimately, how we treat God.
Nourished invites readers to rediscover eating as a sacred act that feeds body, spirit, and community. By slowing down to taste grace in rice, soup, or even burnt toast, readers are invited to resist the exhausting industry of consumption and embrace a life-giving economy of grace. Warm, grounded, and hopeful, Nourished reminds us that we are not machines to be fueled but creatures made for communion with God, one another, and the world God loves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1513819496
• ISBN13: 9781513819495
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Herald Press (VA)
• Length: 220 Pages