You Are What You Eat: The Ancient Theology of Food

You Are What You Eat: The Ancient Theology of Food

From The Modern Ancestral Mamas Podcast by Corey Dunn and Christine Muldoon

June 24, 2026 · 1h 42m · Episode 123

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Corey and Christine discuss the intersection of faith and nutrition with guest Andy Felton, exploring how food relates to spiritual health.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas What if every meal you sit down to is meant to be a rehearsal of your faith, and the church has completely missed it? In this episode, Corey and Christine kick off a brand new series on biblical eating and how physical health is treated in the church, starting with Andy Felton, author of Nourished by Design: A Christ-Centered Approach to Nutrition. Andy isn't a doctor or a theologian. He began his career as a nuclear submarine officer, where seeing the sun through a periscope every few days was the norm and circadian rhythm was an afterthought. When he started battling anxiety and he and his wife faced fertility struggles, he went looking for answers, and found that nearly every health book was either secular or, on the Christian side, theologically skimpy. So he wrote the book he couldn't find. Together they ask the questions the church has gone 2,000 years without really answering: Are Christians called to care about what they put in…

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Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Andy Felton

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