Ebook: 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