Broken Bread : How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger

God Cares More About How You Eat than What You Eat Christians should have their heads on straight about food-but too often our eating is complicated by burdens and rules, by diets and dependencies. So how can we keep a spiritually healthy view of what we eat? Should Christians stop eating white sugar? Does the Bible ask us to go paleo? Most questions about food aren't really about nutrition but about how we understand God. In Broken Bread, Christian Book Award—winner Tilly Dillehay challenges us to abandon the concept of good and bad foods and instead offers a way to... • celebrate food without obsession • make healthy choices without bondage to rules • feed our families without feeling frazzled • find satisfaction without using food as an emotional crutch This isn't another diet book. You won't find any system or plan for eating but rather a joyful call to develop a vision of Christ that informs the way you eat. Take delight in food again, and discover a feast for today that whispers of the eternal feast to come. If Jesus called himself the "bread of life" why is it that our relationship with food is so complicated? Broken Bread identifies the four major food sins and offers a new way of thinking about food less in order to focus on more important matters. Introduction: The Four Food Poles Part I Chapter 1 — Food is fuel: Asceticism in the Kitchen Chapter 2 — Sometimes I eat the whole pint: Gluttony in the Kitchen Chapter 3 — You aren't eating maca root? Snobbery in the Kitchen Chapter 4 — Coq au vin > chicken nuggets: Apathy in the Kitchen Part II Chapter 5 — Hospitality: love in the pot Chapter 6 — Learning to Cook: the joy of doing something poorly Chapter 7 — The sins of the Fathers: generational eating Chapter 8 — Holy and skinny too: food and body image Chapter 9 — Wine o'clock: alcohol and the Christian woman Chapter 10 Food was no longer a means of divisionno longer a curtain. The curtain had become a tablecloth, and the table was laid with Christ the son. Ever notice how much time Jesus spent around a table? If he wasnt sharing a meal with others, he was handing out free meals. If Jesus called himself the bread of life, why is it that our relationship with food is so complicated? We love it. We hate it. We hate that we love it. Whether were obsessing over what not to consumecarbs, sugar, alcoholor what we will devourfat free, dairy free, gluten freefood has become burdensome. Christian Book Award winner Tilly Dillehay tackles the way we approach food. In Broken Bread , Dillehay identifies the four major food sins and the fears that drive them, and she offers a new way of thinking about food less in order to focus on more important matters. When we take the business of breaking bread together seriously, as the early church did, we not only use the table to build community, faith, and love, but the act of preparing and eating food becomes sweeter, more savory, and much more enjoyable. "If Jesus called himself the "bread of life" why is it that our relationship with food is so complicated? Broken Bread identifies the four major food sins and offers a new way of thinking about food less in order to focus on more important matters"-- Provided by publisher