This episode introduces the theme of Jesus as the Bread of Life who came to address our deep sense of scarcity and not-enoughness by becoming the bread of life that was enough to satisfy ancient, deep hungers and to replace what Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann refers to as the “bread of affliction.”

John Hilley’s talk builds upon two scripture passages - Isaiah 55 and John 6 – and invites us to recognize that our pantries are stocked with the bread of abundance and how we are invited to share the “good bread of abundance” with those who dwell in affliction by our ministries of compassion, by the good work of justice, by our embrace of neighbor.