A Theology of Nutrition, Exercise, and Caring for Our Bodies: Dr. Lainey Greer
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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Dr. Lainey Greer is the founder of Your Body Matters and creator of Understand Healthy and The Bible and Your Body. She is passionate about Christian theology and body stewardship and strives to give believers the tools they need to glorify God in their bodies. Dr. Greer holds a BS in Exercise Science from University of Tennessee, a master’s from Dallas Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She’s also written several books including Embodied Holiness and Struggling with Body Image. Join the Theology in the Raw community for as little as $5/month to get access to premium content.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology. |
| 0:02.2 | And around my guest today is Dr. Lainey Greer, who is the founder of Your Body Matters and creator of Understand Healthy and the Bible in your body. |
| 0:10.8 | She is passionate about Christian theology and body stewardship and strives to give believers the tools they need to glorify God in their bodies. |
| 0:18.1 | Dr. Greer holds a BS in exercise science from the University of Tennessee, |
| 0:22.7 | a master's degree from Dallas Seedological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from the |
| 0:28.4 | Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. She's also written several books, including embodied |
| 0:32.3 | holiness and struggling with body image. I really, really enjoyed this conversation and learned a ton from Lainey. |
| 0:40.6 | So please welcome to the show for the first time, the one and only, Dr. Lany Greer. |
| 0:53.4 | Lany, thanks for being a guest on Theology and DeRah. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm curious, what got you interested in the intersection between theology and health, nutrition, |
| 1:03.4 | exercise and all that? |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, so that started several years ago. |
| 1:07.4 | The Lord just really developed a couple passions in me. |
| 1:13.6 | So one was for exercise. I was a personal trainer. I trained a lot of Christians. Then I also love doctrine. I loved learning theology, |
| 1:19.3 | explaining basics of theology to other believers. And those two are kind of always separate. |
| 1:25.2 | And then just over the years, the Lord has led me down the path where he combined the two with a lot of the work I do now, which is on a theology of the body. |
| 1:33.4 | Theology of the body. So for you, were those two topics theology and a body, did you naturally |
| 1:38.9 | think of those as interacting with each other? Or was there a time when you, you know, love to think about |
| 1:45.5 | the body and love thing about theology and then, oh my gosh, these things actually belong together? |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah, I remember the exact time and place where I was when I, you know, recognize those |
| 1:56.3 | connections. Well, and I will say, I was always aware of the importance of, you know, our orthodoxy |
| 2:03.3 | carrying forward into orthopraxy, right? So living out what we believe. But when it came to the body, |
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