Carol Howard Merritt is a pastor at Western Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., the award-winning author of Tribal Church (Alban Institute, 2007) and Reframing Hope (Alban Institute, forthcoming), and the Co-Host of the God Complex Radio podcast. Carol leads conferences nationally and internationally on cultural shifts and religion.

Blog Entries by Carol Merritt

Michelle Obama, Healthy Eating, and Our Church's Homeless Kitchen

Posted March 8, 2010 | 02:23 PM (EST)


It has been a year since the First Lady Michelle Obama arrived at Miriam's Kitchen, the food and social service program housed in the church I pastor. Western Presbyterian is located eight blocks from the White House. Early each morning, our basement wakes up long before the rest of the...

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