You Are Important, and We Love You

Featured February 1, 2018

How did cake become the nearly universal dessert of celebration and consolation? How do people speak love through baking and sharing cake? What was Francis of Assisi’s favorite cake? Is there really an ultimate recipe for coconut cake? Justine Olawsky joins us to reflect on all this and more.

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No Lost Time, After All

Featured May 11, 2017

Renovaré team member Justine Olawsky tells the story of how God moved in her own mom’s life to reveal himself to both mother and daughter. While we may each receive confirmation of God’s goodness in different ways, we hope this story helps remind us that God is good, indeed.

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Book Notes: Out of the House of Bread

Featured March 2, 2016

Bakers know that although baking is a science of sorts, it is also an art. In his new book Out of the House of Bread, author, Anglican priest, and baker, Preston Yancey, suggests that the rhythms involved in producing a single loaf of bread can teach us much about the rhythms of Christian life.