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.
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 – Fasting: the appetite sharpener
Chapter 11 – Will travel, have food: international cuisine and
heaven
Chapter 12 – Taste and see: the Lord’s table
“It’s easy to spot our cultural obsession with food. We have TV
shows featuring cooking competitions, documentaries explaining the
hidden dangers in our food, and bookstores packed with every type
of cookbook situated alongside the latest and greatest lifestyle
diet books. In her new book, Broken Bread: How to Stop Using
Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger, Tilly Dillehay
considers how our various sin struggles with food—from gluttony to
snobbery—can overflow in guilt, judgement, anxiety, or pride as we
consider a simple question: What’s for dinner? She writes with
conviction and compassion as she directs our eyes to a better and
more-needed spiritual feast—one truly able to satisfy and sustain
our daily lives.”
—Melissa Kruger, TGC Director of Women’s Initiatives and author
of Growing Together
“This is a book Christian women need––at least the ones who eat
food. Tilly helps us see that food idolatry comes in more than one
form. She carefully helps us diagnose our sin problem regarding
food, and she then points us to food’s rightful place and purpose
in our lives. Read this book if you want to have peace with God and
peace with what you eat.”
—Abigail Dodds, author of (A)Typical Woman and
contributor at Desiring God
“Broken Bread is an intelligent and biblical discussion
of food issues. It’s a massive table covered with dishes of wisdom
right out of the oven, which are enhanced with the brown gravy of
good sense and set out before an emaciated people who have been
suffering through a famine.”
—Douglas Wilson, pastor of Christ Church, Moscow, Idaho
Product Details
- Title : Broken Bread: How to Stop Using Food and Fear to Fill Spiritual Hunger
- Author: Dillehay, Tilly
- Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9780736980142
Tilly Dillehay is the author of Christian Book Award–winning Seeing Green. She holds a degree in journalism from Lipscomb University and has served as editor of a weekly newspaper and of a lifestyle magazine. She writes at justinandtilly.com and is a contributor to The Gospel Coalition. Tilly lives with her husband, Justin, and their three children on a backcountry road east of Nashville.