Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jung's gifts as theologian, ethicist, pastor, and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book, he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global, Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians' complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally, culturally, and globally, and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith, Christian practices, attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening, the church's ministry, and transforming our cultural policies about food.
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L. Shannon Jung - director of the Center for Theology and Land, a joint project of the Wartburg and University of Dubuque Theological Seminaries in Iowa.
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L. Shannon Jung provokes a searching awareness of our attitudes toward food, distribution ethics, and a different context for eating disorders that is surprisingly relevant for our time, in Food for Life. Though dealing with important and often sobering realities, Jung's writing is easily followed and engaging. No idealist, nor "preacher," Jung leads us through a valuable reflection of our neglect of the whole self while feeding our bodies through unconscious consumption. Highly recommend this book for insights on more intentional and interconnected living...it was not what I expected.
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Bought on recommendation of a recent acquaintance,I might have gotten the title wrong and I didn't read the description.
This book is very christian and being that I cannot stomach any religion imagine a food book with a religious bent. This went straight into recycle bin so hopefully it's something more useful now, like toilet paper.
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PEOPLE WERE WAKING UP in Amalfi, Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, Redeeming Our Lives, New Testament, Holy Spirit, Jesus the Christ, Shalom Hill Farm, Fat Land, Michelle Lelwica New!
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PEOPLE WERE WAKING UP in Amalfi, Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Jesus Christ, Old Testament, Redeeming Our Lives, New Testament, Holy Spirit, Jesus the Christ, Shalom Hill Farm, Fat Land, Michelle Lelwica New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Eucharist and the Hunger of the World by Monika K. Hellwig on 5 pages
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser on 4 pages
- Starving For Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating Problems among American Girls and Women by Michelle Mary Lelwica on 4 pages
- Soul Gardening by Terry Hershey on page 113, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Ending Hunger Now by George McGovern on page 107, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Sense of the Call: A Sabbath Way of Life for Those Who Serve God, the Church, and the World by Marva J. Dawn on page 187
- Pastoral Ministry in the 21st Century:: The Encyclopedia of Practical Ideas by Group Publishing on page 72
- Eating Your Way Through Luke's Gospel by Robert J. Karris on page 103
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