![]() ![]() ![]() I have problems, and I need spiritual - and probably other forms of - counseling.ĭespite my foibles, it’s undeniable that more than any other cuisine in the United States, barbecue is often served with a side of religious fervor. ![]() With that scripture, clearly the prophet Micah wrote of beef barbecue with a sauce, right? I know. Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, Do you also wonder, as I do, if, when the Prophet Ezekiel had a vision about a “valley full of dry bones,” they looked like a pile of spareribs? Does your mind wander whenever you read the words “burnt offering” in passages like this one from the prophet Micah in the Hebrew Bible: When I think about the book of Exodus from the Hebrew Bible, in which Moses encounters the burning bush, I wonder if it smelled like hickory, mesquite, or oak wood. As a Christian and lifelong member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, I bare my soul and share with you that barbecue has been quite distracting to my spiritual life. I begin by confessing, which seems entirely appropriate for a discussion of how barbecue and spirituality intersect. ![]()
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