If you are in the Chicago area, I am in the process of planning several book signings for this winter and spring. If you would like more information on where these will be held, post a comment with your name and email address and I will add you to my promotions list!

Bread & Wine, Part Deux

I've been thinking of my last post off and on, since I posted it. If the bread and wine is the body & blood of Jesus and, if as followers we are to be Jesus "with skin on" to those around us, how are we displaying that? Are we the little tiny pieces of bread and sips of wine (or grape juice) or are we big, hearty slices of bread and full cups of wine?

I have also been thinking of those around me and those who are famous for being bread and wine to others. I am hoping to spend 2007 learning more about these people and their lives and hoping to emulate them, even if it is just a little bit. So, I am posting my list, of both famous and personal, and I would love if people would send me theirs...I'll post the most interesting lists I get.

My mother...Linda Leitch-Alford
My grandmother...Irene Leitch
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mother Theresa
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (Archbishop of Chicago, passed away in 1996)
C.S. Lewis
Sen. Barak Obama
Sen. Chris Dodd
President Jimmy Carter
Dr. Joseph Stowell (fmr. president, MBI and my mentor in college)
Dr. Rosalie deRosset (professor of literature & communications, MBI)
Jan Mahumed, a friend from Nat'l Pres. Church, Washington, DC
Jeff & Barb McCrory, friends from Nat'l Pres. Church
My girlfriends...Christine, Christen, Karen, Lisa & Jewel
Fr. Al Johnson (my current priest, St. Michael's Episcopal, Barrington)
Ann Ryba and the St. Michael's Altar Guild ladies

Of course, this is list is expandable...