Catching Up

It is past time for an update on my faith and fatness work. Here’s what I’ve been up to since I last shared with you:

I am writing a book!

Fortress Press and Theology for the People will be publishing my book on Fatness & Faith in 2018.  Most of my writing the past year has gone into this project and I can’t wait to share it with you.  My prayer is that it will speak truth and light to those who are afraid their body is too much for God.

Fat & Faithful Podcast

Beginning August 1, you can listen to a podcast featuring myself and Amanda Martinez Beck of Fat, Catholic, and Loved. We’ll be talking faith, politics, and culture as it relates to fatness. You can download the pocdast now and hear our short introduction episode.  We’ll release the first few episodes on August 1st and then will have new ones for you a couple times a month after that.

I wrote a few articles on Fatness and Faith

1. Our Bodies are Imperfect Temples at Christianity Today.

God dwells in us whether we’re Olympian-level muscular or morbidly obese.

2.  I Saw Myself in This is Us at Christianity Today

I am rooting for Kate. Rooting for her to find hope and redemption and joy. Rooting for the deep insecurities planted in her childhood by a well-meaning mother or insensitive friends to be vanquished by truth and light and love. 

3. Fat, Faithful, and Fruitful: Bodies in the Church at Evangelicals for Social Action

 I asked a few women that I know who care about body image and the church to answer a few questions about their experiences with how the church has talked, or failed to talk, about bodies. Their answers are instructive about the ways that calling fat “bad,” or excluding fat people from the discussion on bodies, is damaging to the Body of Christ.

 

As always – you can keep up with me on Facebook and Twitter.  I look forward to sharing more with you through the podcast and book in the coming months!