For two decades I’ve heard Christians complain that we need more attention on the body. I’ve heard that Catholics have much deeper, more comprehensive theology of the body. I’ve seen Protestant evangelicals try to make the case. For some reason or another their arguments don’t land.

We live in a time that esteems self-expression, mind over matter, not self-sacrifice of the type that engages the body. But Sam Allberry aims to help us in his new book, What God Has to Say about Our Bodies: How the Gospel Is Good News for Our Physical Selves (Crossway).

In this book he encourages Christians to look forward, but not to a time when we’ll have a full head of hair and flat stomachs. Instead we anticipate resurrected bodies that glorify and serve Jesus perfectly. And what good news that is for our broken bodies!

Sam joined me on Gospelbound to discuss intimacy, technology, Avatar, and much more. I even got to ask him why it’s nearly impossible to write about masculinity and femininity today.