Station: [120] Bread as a Staple Food


The films you can watch in this room were shot by Sister Mehmet, the former caretaker of the congregation in Kurdistan, in what is now Turkey. This top-fired oven was invented 6,000 years ago. The dough is also placed into the oven from the top. Goat hair is mixed into the clay to increase the durability of the oven, called a “tannur,” and in every tannur you’ll find a word from the Bible. Start in a clockwise direction. It becomes clear that all states of mind can be associated with the word for bread, “lechem,” in Hebrew. Bread here is more than just bread; it is simply food, but even more than that: it is also food for the soul. This becomes clear in the Arab world: there, “lechem” means meat, or in South Arabia, on the coast, “lechem” means fish. Yet bread is no longer a staple food for us. Whether it is in accordance with Jesus’ will for us to use communion wafers in the memorial service for Jesus is a question that must be answered unequivocally. Communion wafers are not a staple food.

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