The Living Diet: A Christian Journey to Joyful Eating

by Martha Tatarnic

Overview

The Living Diet invites us to consider our relationship to food from a Christian perspective.

Food: can’t live with it or without it. We are bombarded with messages that the secret to health and weight loss can be unlocked with the right product or magic discipline, but we are getting neither thinner nor happier. Reports suggest that we are losing our battle with obesity, while the anxiety people experience in relationship with food increases. We are taught that bodies are fundamentally a problem to be solved, or worse, a war to be won, while a misguided worldview suggests that our food choices are of concern to us alone; an individual act of pleasure or consequences.

Few resources speak to our food problem from a distinctly Christian perspective. Drawing on a rich assemblage of personal and collected stories grounded in the teachings of Jesus, The Living Diet offers a joyful alternative to the desperation and dissatisfaction that have become cultural norms for both eating and body image, inviting us to consider our choices in the context of community. Ancient wisdom yields a surprisingly modern response to the dieting dilemma, as well as to the realm of public, or popular, theology, helping the reader discover the real joy of eating and the true gift of embodied living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640651494
Publisher:	Church Publishing
Publication date:	04/17/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

The Rev. Canon Martha Tatarnic is a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada and rector at St. George’s Anglican Church in St. Catharines, Ontario—a large urban church that reaches thousands through their online presence. She writes a blog for the Canadian Anglican Church, Ministry Matters and is a contributor to Bearings Online,The Porch magazine, The Anglican Journal, and Christian Century. She is the author of The Living Diet: A Christian Journey to Joyful Eating. She lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction v

Part 1 Disorder

1 The Dangling Carrot 2

2 At War With Our Bodies 7

3 Holding His Feet 21

4 Born Hungry 25

5 Feeding The Emptiness 39

6 I Am Bread 45

7 Habits And Healing 51

8 You Are How You Eat 57

Part 2 The Diet

9 Becoming Real 66

10 Gratitude-A Eucharistic Life 74

11 I Don't Know I'm Hungry 87

12 Food Is Personal 102

13 Lord of the Feast 117

14 Fasting-Food as Compassion 129

15 Run for Life 145

16 Body Language 157

17 What Do We Want? Everything! 168

18 Clay Jars 178

19 A Theology of Cake 188

Acknowledgments 199

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The Living Diet is no mere religious self-help book or gimmicky "God wants you to be slim" dietary plan. What Martha Tartarnic has written is better, deeper, and wiser. She has placed our cultural anxieties about food and bodies into a larger theological vision, encouraging us to find the redemptive joys of sharing, nourishment, and community, rather than participating in "a culture that treats food as the enemy rather than a gift." Savor this book!"
- Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology at Emory University

Editorial Reviews

"The Living Diet is no mere religious self-help book or gimmicky "God wants you to be slim" dietary plan. What Martha Tartarnic has written is better, deeper, and wiser. She has placed our cultural anxieties about food and bodies into a larger theological vision, encouraging us to find the redemptive joys of sharing, nourishment, and community, rather than participating in "a culture that treats food as the enemy rather than a gift." Savor this book!"
- Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor Emeritus of Preaching, Candler School of Theology at Emory University

From the Publisher