Talk: Rhythms and rituals episode 3 - Firstfruits - Owen Lynch

About this episode

Owen Lynch discusses the significance of the Firstfruits festival and its implications for faith and community.

How can celebrating and giving the first part of our year’s grown food be helpful to us? Owen Lynch looks at the festival of Firstfruits, given in the Bible for Jewish people to mark a few days after Passover. It recognises how a food-growing community that has gone through a season where nothing grew could look forward to more fruitful life ahead. They didn’t wait for the whole year’s harvest, but made offerings from their first fruits in faith that new life had overcome the threat of death. What difference could that kind of faith make to us, and how can we practise it?

People in this episode

Guest: Owen Lynch

Topics covered

• Firstfruits
• faith
• food-growing community
• celebration
• rituals
• spirituality

Keywords

• Firstfruits
• Owen Lynch
• Passover
• faith
• celebration
• food
• spirituality
• rituals

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bible

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