Huel \u2014 an abbreviation of \u2018human fuel\u2019 \u2014 is a type of powdered food made of oats, peas, flax and rice. I\u2019ve tried it and it is disgusting \u2014 gruel, essentially, in smart packaging. But it\u2019s hugely popular: Huel is now one of the fastest growing companies in Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The article is all about how men in Britain, and I suppose the trend must be growing over here too, are trying to rid themselves of their toxic masculinity by focusing on themselves more, rather than less. This new found devotion is all about being thin, eating virtuously, and reducing one\u2019s carbon footprint. It may be old fashioned narcissism, but it\u2019s the latest thing.<\/p>\n
Which is good news for the Christian because it makes having an appealing witness that much easier. You can preach the gospel, not by bothering with words, but just by inviting some over-anxious, too thin, self-absorbed young person over and serving up actual food.<\/p>\n
Immortality is the latest obsession in Silicon Valley. The fashionable pastime for tech whizz kids is to attempt to \u2018cure\u2019 death \u2014 and conquer their own mortality. It is the ultimate narcissistic pursuit. Thiel and Elon Musk have embraced transhumanism, an intellectual movement which believes in the body\u2019s ability to evolve beyond human limits. Some transhumanists fantasise about cutting out food and sex entirely. If man can overcome his desire for both, he will be one step closer to becoming a machine \u2014 or even a god. \u2018The less you eat, the better. You\u2019re better off being borderline starving to live longer,\u2019 says Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist politician who is running to be the governor of California later this year. For breakfast, he eats artificial eggs made out of peas and beans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Truly, this puts an entirely new spin on Jesus\u2019 propensity to \u201ceat with sinners.\u201d<\/p>\n
No indeed, embrace the gospel and eat something delicious. Go out and buy a leek that needs to be soaked and rinsed and then luxuriously minced. Put a little butter in the pan and watch it gently melt. Add the leaks and a clove of garlic. Believe me, it\u2019s biblical.<\/p>\n
Throw all caution to the wind and apply some actual yeast to the flour of your choice\u2014whatever kind doesn\u2019t make you ill\u2014and make, what\u2019s that called? Ah, bread. As the heat transforms all the disparate elements into one new perfect loaf, let your senses glory in God\u2019s daily provision. For real, it\u2019s in the literal bible.<\/p>\n
Food is for every day. You have to think about it every morning when you rise up. You have to pause and rest and sit and be nourished after a morning of labor, either of the mind or the body, sometimes both together. In the evening you have to sit down again and discover that God fed you through the day, and can do so again, with actual food that you have to put into your mouth and chew. He gave it to you not so that you would live forever, but so that you would live today.<\/p>\n
But there is food that reaches over the boundary of death and into eternal life. Not some sort of transhuman bean supplement, some foul gray gruel, a pill that saves you from death\u2019s dark, hungry shadow. No indeed, it includes a beautiful cup, filled with blood red wine of all things\u2026and bread. It is a spare, yet nourishing amuse bouche, a foretaste not of clinically beating back the body\u2019s frail and inevitable demise, but of what will be a banquet, a wedding feast, a table laden with good things to eat. You stagger forward to taste what is to come, the wondrous miracle of Jesus himself. When you bite down on it\u2014which is a curious picture of faith, in a world where every mouthful of food is distrusted, anxious, probably poisoned with fat and toxicity\u2014you know that you are joined to the one who has destroyed death by the power of his own blood.<\/p>\n
Go to church, and then go to lunch after. It\u2019s the gospel.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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