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At a recent faculty dinner, the servers brought out the dessert— a cream and cake concoction, sprinkled with chocolate. A colleague—a minister and professor of religion—laughed and declared, “That looks sinful, but Luther urged us to sin boldly.” He and the rest of the people at the table tucked into the evil confection, while the college president, seated nearby, received praise for resisting the dessert’s temptation. Around that table, food was a moral issue.
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Sack, D. (2000). Moral Food: Eating as a Christian Should. In: Whitebread Protestants. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-06170-6_6
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