Pastor Deana Dudley tells about a movie called Soul Food, which came out five or six years ago. In the movie, Mama Joe, the mother of an African American family, has held her clan together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food fried chicken, smothered pork chops, greens, cabbage, mashed potatoes and gravy, macaroni and cheese. Sounds good, doesn’t it? [I shouldn’t torture you so close to lunch.] 

But one day Mama Joe has to go to the hospital, so the dinners stop. And the family begins to fall apart. Her daughters start feuding and they’re on the verge of never speaking again. “Finally, Mama Joe’s grandson Ahmad cooks up a scheme to bring the family together, back to the table, because it’s around the table that the family enjoys not just food for the body but food for the soul…