You Are What You Eat: The Ancient Theology of Food

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What if every meal you sit down to is meant to be a rehearsal of your faith, and the church has completely missed it?

 

In this episode, Corey and Christine kick off a brand new series on biblical eating and how physical health is treated in the church, starting with Andy Felton, author of Nourished by Design: A Christ-Centered Approach to Nutrition.

 

Andy isn't a doctor or a theologian. He began his career as a nuclear submarine officer, where seeing the sun through a periscope every few days was the norm and circadian rhythm was an afterthought. When he started battling anxiety and he and his wife faced fertility struggles, he went looking for answers, and found that nearly every health book was either secular or, on the Christian side, theologically skimpy. So he wrote the book he couldn't find.

 

Together they ask the questions the church has gone 2,000 years without really answering: Are Christians called to care about what they put in their bodies? Why is scripture so saturated with food, hunger, and feasting from Genesis onward? Andy makes the case that food is one of God's great object lessons, a physical thing pointing to a spiritual reality, and that our daily hunger is ultimately a hunger for God.

 

✨ Topics Covered in This Episode:

✔️ How physical health is (and isn't) represented in the church, and why it dropped the ball

✔️ Whether Christians are actually called to care about what they eat

✔️ Why scripture is a story about a hungry people, from manna to the bread of life

✔️ Food as object lesson: physical things pointing to spiritual truths

✔️ The "just eat junk and meet your maker faster" objection, answered

✔️ Three meals a day as three daily reminders of our hunger for God

✔️ Fasting as a both/and practice, spiritual first and physical second

✔️ Old manna, the dietary laws, and what clean vs. unclean really meant

✔️ Are the dietary laws still binding? Hebrews 8, Romans 14, and the new covenant

✔️ What Weston A. Price's traditional cultures reveal about "unclean" foods

✔️ Blood, the Council of Jerusalem, and a surprising take on Acts 15

✔️ New manna: Jesus as the bread of life in John 6, and the temple parallel

 

📚 Resources & Links Mentioned:

📍 Nourished by Design (Andy's book) – available on Amazon

📍 Andy's website – https://www.nourishedbydesignbook.com

📍 Earlier episode with Deborah McNamara on why humans eat three times a day

📍 Corey's Christian women's book club – message her to join

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