The gospel of personal responsibility and obesity

While I was away a few weeks ago, regular reader and fellow blogger Charity Jill tweeted to me about speaker/blogger Shane Blackshear’s post “It’s Probably Time We All Talked About Obesity and the Church”.

Shane’s post is not particularly unique in its outlook; over a year ago, Marcus Thompson, a pastor in Oakland, CA, published a piece on Relevant called “The Immorality of Gluttony” that expresses very similar concerns. (I responded to it here.)

In the post, Shane seems to think that churches haven’t done much to assert that "gluttony" is a sin; we may trot out the “body is a temple” verses for smoking or alcohol abuse, says Shane, but we don’t care about healthy eating, and we should.