Many of us would love to see churches start promoting health better. We hear the endless prayer requests for heartbreaking health problems. We see the obese pastors preaching about self-control. We have to decide if it’s worth it to compromise the quality of food our kids eat just so they can attend children’s church or VBS. And we know that God’s Word has power to speak to all areas of our lives, that health and nutrition are not spiritually neutral topics, and that if Christians have the...

A few nights ago, here at my house in Alaska I was up for a little while at 3:00 AM. I walked into my kitchen, and this was the view of my backyard. (Why was I up at 3:00 AM? I’ll get to that at the end.) No, my phone was not adjusting the lighting in this photo. Right now, only a few days past the longest day of the year, it never gets dark. The sun sets at 11:45 PM and rises at 4:13 AM. Twilight bridges the gap. Last summer when we first moved to Alaska, everyone warned us about the dark...

Like many people who have become interested in health and nutrition, I was led in it through my own health issues. I became a Christian in high school and shortly afterwards started college at the Air Force Academy, where, like many college, students, I was suddenly trading home cooked meals for a diet of nearly all pre-made, processed foods. Food at the Air Force Academy is an explicit display of everything modern food is made to be: fast, convenient, and mass produced. The dining hall is...