(also theology-themed Presence)

From windbringer1, we have The Hymn of a Fat Woman, by Joyce Huff

From revjohnny, we have Easter, Chocolate and Religion, with extra-thinky-religious commentary by me ( Read more... )

I have just started a blog about fat liberation theology! My first post is up today, and it's about hunger ( Read more... )

Issues in Supervision: The Case of the Sloppy Seminarian

I'm too busy at the present moment to formulate the kind of response that I believe this post deserves, but want to put it out here in this forum.

Thoughts?

I'm taking a seminary course this quarter on Liberation Theology, and even though I haven't even gone to the first class yet (it's on Thursday), I am SO excited to write my paper on Fat theology!

The only book I can find so far is this one from Amazon: The Fat Jesus: Christianity and Body Image, but I haven't read it yet, so I don't know how good ( Read more... )

There seems to be an unusual amount of God-talk going on around the fat blogs these days.

The F-Word "You May Now Love Yourself"
"But faith-based diets are especially heinous because they play upon and exploit the very real religious and spiritual beliefs of people. If you can’t lose the weight, is it because you lack faith? If you can’t sustain the ( Read more... )

I'm working as a Chaplain Resident at a large hospital for the next 10 months and I am picking around the edges of the idea of starting a HAES discussion/action group in the hospital setting. Challenges abound. The hospital has a pretty much total patholigizing posture wrt fat, bathrooms marked as "bariatric friendly," fat patients in any context ( Read more... )

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0707&article=070722

I was exploring LJ a little and found this group. I'm no theologian, but I am a fat Christian (Episcopalian) living in Madison, Wisconsin. I'm the music leader for our church's service in Spanish; I'm a gringa still learning Spanish. Life takes you to places you might never have expected.... I'm a fat activist whenever I'm able to be. I have pretty ( Read more... )

A link for those who missed the CNN segment: 
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2007/09/04/intv.god.want.slim.cnn

Marilyn Wann did a pretty good job, I think, given that the whole discussion really wasn't about religion anyway.  Sounded to me like the author she was responding to was just a guy wrapping health talk in god talk.

I think it is ( Read more... )

Though I suspect most of us would rather theological discussion about size rise above such petty questions, I have recently received word that Paul Campos and Marilyn Wann will be on CNN tomorrow (Tuesday) at around 5:30 pm eastern to counter a "God wants us all to be thin" author.  Not sure which author that is.  Anyway, it might be interesting.