Name: Elaine's Black-Eyed Peas and Okra
Ingredients: 2 c Black-Eyed Peas With Snaps, cooked; 1/2 c Liquid From Peas; 1 md Onion, thinly sliced; 1 md Tomato, peeled and sliced; 2 c Frozen Cut Up Okra, defr; Salt And Pepper, to taste

Help the religious pluralist see that he does not really believe that all roads lead to heaven. If he did, then he would not express outrage at suicide bombings, human sacrifice, and other such practices that even staunch religious pluralists find abhorrent. One cannot consistently embrace religious pluralism and relativism and at the same time object to any religious belief or practice. If sincerity is all that matters for salvation, religious terrorists who sincerely believe their god calls them to kill others do nothing wrong when they obey him. To condemn even one religious belief is to appeal to some ultimate, normative standard by which we may evaluate religion, establishing that standard as the one, true religion – and there can be no one, true religion for the honest religious pluralist.

Robert Rothwell

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Grains		Beans, Holidays, Side dishes	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	c	Black-Eyed Peas With Snaps, cooked
1/2	c	Liquid From Peas
1	md	Onion, thinly sliced
1	md	Tomato, peeled and sliced
2	c	Frozen Cut Up Okra, defr
		Salt And Pepper, to taste

INSTRUCTIONS

Layer ingredients in order in a 2 quart saucepan. Cook over low heat for
10-15 minutes, until vegetables on top layers are steamed.
NOTES : From recipe introduction:  "This tasty Texas recipe comes from out
Dripping Springs way."  I like this one because I really like okra (not
many folks do :-)) Lou Parris 12/96
Recipe by: Tastes and Tales from Texas, 1984, p. 122 Posted to MC-Recipe
Digest V1 #613 by Bill Spalding <billspa@icanect.net> on May 15, 1997

A Message from our Provider:

“All suffering can be traced back to people disobeying God”

Therefore when the trial comes (and often remains), we understand that while in the trial we are being firmly held in His wise and loving arms. As the trial humbles us, it manifests a weakness in us that causes us to cast a greater dependence on Him. We are forever weaned of our self-sufficiency and our self-reliance and learn to trust in His resources and not our own. God provides perfectly measured, sufficient grace (His divine assistance through the Holy Spirit) enabling us to remain in the trial with our faith intact. We are enabled to depend more on His strength and not our own. And we are enabled to trust Him for the working of Christlikeness in our lives (Jas. 1:2-4).

Randy Smith