048 From Shame to Grace: Your Body, the Temple (with Dr. Beth Felker Jones)
Attaching to God: Neuroscience-informed Spiritual Formation
Is Your Body in Your Control?
The BMI, the scale that's so often used to determine whether or the right amount of fat is based in racist standards. Created based on mostly white, rich bodies. And it has all kinds of social things attached to it. But I think it's really huge as this sense of if you're sick, it's your fault to be healthy and requires eating right and exercising properly. If I do it, I can look smugly on you for not doing it. As though we're in our control, right? So much is not in our control. Yeah, but there is some biblical interpretation which does really make us feel like it is in our Control. When you look at all the
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