“Give us this day our daily bread,” as found in Matthew 6:11, is one of the petitions found in what we generally call the Lord’s Prayer. Positioned midway between the beginning and the end of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, this is serious business— Biblically speaking. As it turns out, correspondents for the popular press worldwide also take the expression “daily bread” pretty seriously. This is, so it seems, at least partially the result of establishments such as Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank, which distributes food and often other services to the needy within their communities. This is important, […]
