Aminah Al-Attas Bradford

The Moriah Pie Cookbook

Christian Living

“If I could wave a magic wand over swaths of the North American Church, I would have it embrace creaturely dependence. This book might be my wand. It looks for God in rubble, crabapple, and coyote scat. It renders the matter-spirit divide unintelligible with a God who embraces dependence on things like wheelbarrows, and submission to things like seasons or sleeping. This cookbook alights like liturgy—each word matters theologically and thus, ecologically. Beyond words Moriah Pie sneaks in through the senses with drawings that make me want to get inside them, and photos that like stain glass filter a scene that helps me know hope in my body. Moriah Pie’s recipes, like bread and wine can put the story of an earthen God in your mouth, to taste a world bursting with love made into pie.”