Fat Church

Whether your body is small or large, aged or young, disabled or abled, toned or soft, lithe or stiffor somewhere in-betweenanti-fatness affects us all, because it is intended to. Fat Church critiques anti-fat prejudice and the Churchs historic participation in it, calling for a fatphobic reckoning for the sake of Gods gospel of freedom.Pastor and theological educator Anastasia Kidd reviews the history of diet culture, fat studies, beauty, body policingand the white supremacist machinations underpinning themin order to work for a society rooted in body liberation for all. Fat Church offers a disruption to social habits of shame and remembers the theology of abundance that calls us all beloved by God.