Diet & Purity Culture in the Church

The F*ck It Podcast

Caroline Dooner

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture

4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today I am sharing my conversation with Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN, CSCS, CEDRDS-S, where she talks about diet culture and purity culture in the church (and how is mirrors our culture at large!). We also chat about Gwen Shamblin, the infamous "Christian" cult leader, and the way the bible was (mis)interpreted.

Though, today's episode is from the perspective how to change the mindset in the church from a focus on purity, to one of love, acceptance, and "grace" (a word Leslie breaks down in the conversation!). This episode is for all people, regardless of your religion, because the parallels run so deep.

And next episode will be a different conversation of leaving Fundamental Christianity and finding trauma healing.

Find Leslie on instagram and her website here

Read the beginning of Tired as F*ck or The F*ck It Diet

Find Summer Innanen's free Body Neutrality Workshop here: bodyneutralityworkshop.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello. That's how I say hi to Molly when I come home. Hello, Molly. Molly's my dog for anybody
0:10.9	who doesn't know. Hello. Welcome back. Welcome back to you and me. Again, I think it's only
0:19.2	been about two weeks since the last episode came out but today
0:24.0	i'm sharing my conversation that i had with dietitian leslie shilling she is an intuitive eating
0:31.4	dietitian who works at the intersection of sports nutrition and eating disorders but today we are going to be focusing on
0:41.8	diet culture and purity culture in the church, in the Christian church. And if you don't identify
0:50.0	as Christian, honestly, I mean, I was raised Catholic Catholic I don't know what I identify with
0:55.6	anymore I'm very conflicted on so many different things but I'm there
1:01.1	will be a lot of takeaways if you do not I did if you do not if you do if
1:06.6	you are not Christian or don't know if you're Christian anymore like me.
1:16.6	There are so many parallels to our culture at large.
1:27.1	And Leslie, Christian herself, is truly, truly an embodiment, in my opinion, of the love and kindness of Jesus, which I do not believe
1:31.0	all churches and all Christians are. You know, I've been a little nervous to
1:39.5	release this episode because I have my own kind of like prejudices that I'm working through
1:48.2	and honestly like towards people who say that they're Christian because of my experiences,
1:59.0	because of my assumptions, because of real toxicity in the church which we're
2:04.0	obviously going to be talking about and so much so you know if you feel similarly to me
2:12.4	just try to have an open mind leslie is just such a lovely, wonderful person and I got a lot
2:20.4	out of our conversation. And I hope you do too. Okay? Before I get into the conversation,
2:32.6	I'm going to give you a word from, I mean, saying our sponsors
2:37.2	doesn't really make any sense. Yeah, I'm going to give you a word from our, me and my microphones
2:42.5	sponsors. The first sponsor of this podcast is me because I don't make any money doing this podcast. So this podcast is brought to you by
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