Eat with Joy - by Rachel Marie Stone (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Seeking an antidote to widespread anxiety over food ethics, cultural obesity and more, Rachel Marie Stone reclaims the joy of grateful eating. She combines stories, recipes, tips and biblically based reflection to teach you and your community the fine art of taking your food from the hand of God.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul> <li>The 2014 Christianity Today Book Award Winner (Christian Living)</li> </ul><p>Food is the source of endless angst and anxiety. We struggle with obesity and eating disorders. Reports of agricultural horror stories give us worries about whether our food is healthy, nutritious or justly produced. It's hard to know if our food is really good for us or for society. Our relationship with food is complicated to say the least. But God intended for us to delight in our food. Rachel Stone calls us to rediscover joyful eating by receiving food as God's good gift of provision and care for us. She shows us how God intends for us to relate to him and each other through food, and how our meals can become expressions of generosity, community and love of neighbor. Eating together can bring healing to those with eating disorders, and we can make wise choices for sustainable agriculture. Ultimately, redemptive eating is a sacramental act of culture making through which we gratefully herald the feast of the kingdom of God. Filled with practical insights and some tasty recipes, this book provides a Christian journey into the delight of eating. Come to the table, partake of the Bread of Life--and eat with joy.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p><em>Eat With Joy</em> is an expansive and generous exploration of theology, culture and all things food. . . . Eating becomes a richer act as one considers Stone's reflections; and if we are indeed what we eat, we become richer as well.</p>--Katherine Willis Pershey, Englewood Review of Books, Eastertide 2013<br><br><p>In this engaging book, Rachel Marie Stone describes what she has explored on her journey of 'learning to eat like a Christian, ' which has entailed movement towards the profoundly countercultural practice of joyful eating. . . . Given Stone's honest, disarming, and nonjudgmental spirit, the book will energize readers to take incremental steps away from the guilt, angst, and anxiety that so often characterize our relationships with food and to move redemptively toward joyful eating.</p>--Frances Taylor Gench, Interpretation, 67(4)<br><br><p>In this food-crazed society . . . <em>Eat with Joy</em> offers wisdom for the challenges of health and 'proper' eating. The book serves up a solid theology of food--of receiving it, enjoying it, and giving thanks for it. It offers the perfect blend of personal stories and research, Scripture and recipes.</p>--Caryn Rivadeneira, The 2014 Christianity Today Book Awards, Christianity Today, January/February 2014<br><br><p>Rachel stone calls us to rediscover joyful eating by receiving food as God's good gift of provision and care for us. . . . Combining insightful reflections on food and faith with some tasty recipes, this will not be a book to miss!</p>--C. Christopher Smith, Englewood Review of Books, Advent 2012<br><br><p>Rachel Marie Stone reminds us that God intends us to delight in food, and she invites us to do so again. Offering up both wisdom and recipes, Stone welcomes us to the table and shows us a way to eat with joy.</p>--Relevant Magazine, May/June 2013<br><br><p>Rachel Marie Stone's <em>Eat With Joy: Redeeming God's Gift of Food</em> takes one of the most fundamental aspects of human life and covers it with remarkable depth and breadth. . . . She offers a compelling vision of how we can spiritually and concretely partake of the heavenly banquet on earth.</p>--Conspire, Spring 2013<br><br><p>Stone's astute volume will nurture readers in a way that few books about food and faith can, helping them to move beyond both the paralysis of food-related knowledge and the didacticism that sometimes accompanies food-justice activism. <em>Eat With Joy</em> carries its readers toward the comforting, joyful truth that God is a 'loving parent, waiting to welcome us home with a hug and a bite of something to eat.'</p>--Valerie Weaver-Zercher, The Christian Century, July 24, 2013<br><br><p>The moral imperative of food sustainability has turned many a well-intentioned dining companion into a locavore-vegan-forager scold obsessed with ritual purity at the expense of pleasure. From the Christian perspective, eating biblically should weigh not only the ethical and environmental implications of food production methods, but also such elements as generosity, friendship, gratitude and worship. Stone, a contributor to <em>Christianity Today's</em> Her.meneutics blog, presents a compelling case to tone down foodie righteousness with common sense and awe of the sacred. Confessing to personal struggles with eating disorders, Stone ends each chapter with lyrical prayers drawn from around the world. 'Better the occasional meal shared with friends at McDonald's than organic salad in bitter isolation, ' Stone admonishes the new dietary purists.</p>--John Murawski, Religion News Service, The Year's 10 Most Intriguing Religion Books, December 22, 2013<br><br><p>This is a bewildering world to eat in. Thankfully, Rachel Marie Stone has written <em>Eat With Joy</em>. . . . She draws on wisdom from all the voices of today--from Pollan and Kingsolver to Berry and Capon--and seasons it with a healthy dose of friendly common sense. . . . <em>Eat With Joy</em> is a welcome voice of sanity, speaking into the cacophony, helping readers to integrate and balance the many voices. Stone provides resources to help us eat redemptively, restoratively, communally, creatively, and sustainably. No more culinary stalemates or food comas: instead, we can eat with joy.</p>--Alissa Wilkinson, Books Culture, April 4, 2013<br>
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