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.

Contents:

Introduction: The Four Food Poles
PART 1: Four Poles
 1. Food is Fuel: Asceticism at the Table
 2. Sometimes I Eat the Whole Pint: Gluttony at the Table
 3. You Aren't Eating Maca Root?: Snobbery at the Table
 4. Cog Au Vin ≠ Chicken Nuggets: Apathy at the Table
PART 2
 5. Hospitality: Love in the Pot
 6. Learning to Cook: The Joy of Doing Something Poorly
 7. The Mirror: Food and Body Image
 8. Wine O'Clock: Alcohol and the Christian Woman
 9. Awakening Appetite: Fasting As a Spiritual Practice
10. Will Travel, Have Food: International Cuisine and Heaven
11. Taste and See: The Lord's Table

Tilly Dillehay holds a degree in journalism from Lipscomb University. In the past, she has been the editor of a weekly newspaper and of a lifestyle magazine, and now she serves as homemaker and mother to two little girls. She writes at www.justinandtilly.com and contributes occasionally to The Gospel Coalition. She is the host of The Green Workshop, an event for women on the subject of envy that is held at local churches. Tilly's husband, Justin, is a pastor in the small town east of Nashville where the family resides.