Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating

Food for Life draws on L. Shannon Jungs gifts as theologian ethicist pastor and eater extraordinaire. In this deeply thoughtful but very lively book he encourages us to see our humdrum habits of eating and drinking as a spiritual practice that can renew and transform us and our world. In a fascinating sequence that takes us from the personal to the global Jung establishes the religious meaning of eating and shows how it dictates a healthy order of eating. He exposes Christians complicity in the face of widespread eating disorders we experience personally culturally and globally and he argues that these disorders can be reversed through faith Christian practices attention to habitual activities like cooking and gardening the churchs ministry and transforming our cultural policies about food.