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Eat With Joy is not “a pie-in-the-sky dream for obsessive foodies.”

My thanks to Wes Vander Lugt for this glowing review of Eat With Joy. Here are just a few of the lines that have me pawing the ground with my toe and going “Really? Thanks so much!”– “In my mind, it combines the best of new food research with the best of biblical theology and Christian wisdom.” [...]

Leave A Comment For Your Free Copy of ‘Eat With Joy’

I have a guest post at Amy Julia Becker‘s lovely blog, Thin Places. Amy Julia is also graciously hosting a giveaway, so if you head over to her blog and leave a comment, you’ll be entered to win a free copy of Eat With Joy–the kind made out of paper! Amy Julia asked me to [...]

In the Flesh

There’s something about holding a book in your hands. I may spend a lot of time reading and writing, but I am enchanted by incarnated, physical things. (Like blankets. And casseroles.) At the Festival of Faith and Writing this year, when I was tired of listening to people talk about books, I wandered around in [...]

REAL Happy Meals–an Interview in (at) Christianity Today

The current issue of Christianity Today features an interview with me by the truly lovely LaVonne Neff–who really knows how to ask insightful questions–and it’s online now here. But to tempt you to make your way on over, here are a few samples: Eating with joy is great, but lots of us get downright giddy—and [...]

Guest Post: Gleaning from the Edges

Thanks to Tim Fall, who has blogged here before, for this guest post on gleaning and feasting… In reading the passage on the word “glean” in Keri Wyatt Kent’s Deeper Into the Word –Reflection on 100 words from the Old Testament, I found Leviticus 23:22 - When you reap the harvest of your land, do [...]

A Table Big Enough For Everyone (and a giveaway)

My friend Amy Julia Becker has an excellent new e-book out called What Every Woman Needs to Know About Prenatal Testing: Insight from a Mom Who Has Been There. Amy Julia writes that her aim was “to write a nonjudgmental book to provide women and their partners with a way to think about prenatal testing [...]

On Responding To Criticism

In general, I make it a point to engage very lightly with negative things that people say about my writing; recently I posted on Facebook that I’d given up reading comments for Lent (and maybe forever). As one of my writer friends has said, it’s not especially conducive to good mental health—or to writerly self-confidence—to [...]

A Faith Embracing All Creatures

Byron Borger of Hearts & Minds Books has an excellent review of what sounds like a very good new book–A Faith Embracing All Creatures–at the Humane Society website. I was surprised and delighted to see my new book mentioned as “the essential ‘go-to’ entry level, must-read book on the subject” of faith and eating. Byron [...]

“There’s Something For Everyone Here.”

The lovely Aubry Smith recently posted a review of my new book, which you may read in its entirety here. But here are some of my favorite parts, with my comments italicized and in brackets: “I’m also nine months pregnant, which brings its own set of complications to the table: I indulge in some cravings, [...]

How the Beauty Culture Blasphemes Our Bodies

In her memoir Bossypants, Tina Fey claims that everyone knows Photoshopped images aren’t real, but she also acknowledges that the culture of beauty has changed significantly since she was a girl. Back then, “you were either blessed with a beautiful body or not. And if you were not, you could just chill out and learn [...]