Recently, we (more precisely, my wife) purchased some Ezekiel bread, which we (more precisely, I) have enjoyed eating. The same company now makes products based on Genesis 1:29 (“I give you every seed-bearing plant … for food”). Although my initial impulse—to use these items as the basis for a column—has not panned out, the process has made me hungry for nourishment, both physical and spiritual. Although I use salt only sparingly, it is a necessary component of many foods. As such it appears frequently in the Bible, where it is also the name of what we today call the […]
