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Coping with Anxiety, Worry and Fear
Richard Winter
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Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 27.1MB
Catalogue number: 1625
Date of lecture: 14/02/2010

Eating Disorders
Ruth Blackburn
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Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 10.3MB
Catalogue number: 352
Date of lecture: 01/01/1995

Fat, Fancy, & Faith - Eating Disorders & The Gospel
Richard Winter
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Eating disorders are common amongst younger people and the same is true of young people in the Church. What does the message of Christ have to say to people of struggle with such issues?

Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 13.8MB
Catalogue number: 326
Date of lecture: 01/10/2000

Shame
Alison McGregor
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Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 13.2MB
Catalogue number: 973
Date of lecture: 12/02/2008

The Gospel and Eating Disorders
Emma Scrivener
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This lecture explores the subject of eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. The speaker talks about the signs and symptoms and causes of such disorders, as well as looking at the path to recovery. She explores spiritual aspects and asks how the church can help people who suffer from them. Emma also shares from her own experiences of suffering from anorexia and how the gospel of Jesus Christ truly is good news. She reads from her book 'A New Name - grace and healing for anorexia'. (Published by IVP)

Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 15.1MB
Catalogue number: 1516
Date of lecture: 05/04/2013

On Food Part 1 - Obession, anxiety and anorexia - exploring our contemporary relationships to food
Jim Paul
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"Food is not only an immediate reality but also a system of communication." But what are we saying through our contemporary attitudes to food? This lectures explores our contemporary relationship to food - in equal parts we seem obsessed with food (Tv programmes, diet gurus, celebrity chefs, cook books, etc, in fear of it (fat, salt, cholesterol, GM food, E numbers, etc), and expressing psychological tensions through it (anorexia and other eating disorders). What underlies these attitudes to food?

Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 14.8MB
Catalogue number: 602
Date of lecture: 08/10/2010

On Food Part 2 - Towards a Theology of Food
Jim Paul
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Language: English
Format: MP3
File size: 13.2MB
Catalogue number: 667
Date of lecture: 04/02/2011