The Physically Fit Messiah

Too many people are ailing and dying in church pews, and author Cal Samra is challenging clergy and health professionals to stem the epidemic of obesity, Alzheimer's, and other diseases by respecting the contributions of health reformers of the past and present. He introduces you to the early Greek Christian physicians, the early Franciscans, John Wesley and the early Methodists, Congregationalist Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ellen White and the Seventh Day Adventists, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and modern health reformers like George Bernard Shaw and Jack LaLanne.

He teaches you to be concerned about the environmental factors affecting your health, nutrition, the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, our physical fitness as well as our spiritual fitness. He tells you how to avoid Alzheimer’s and make the healing power of humor work for you. He urges clergy, health professionals, parents... everyone... to be fearless in promoting health and fitness.

The Physically Fit Messiah is a book that embraces humor (the book includes 26 cartoons), honesty (Samra tells it like he sees it), and inclusivity (all religious faiths, even though it has a predominantly Christian flavor).

Cal Samra

Cal Samra is the founding editor and publisher of The Joyful Noiseletter, a national newsletter which for 31 years has brought good humor and good cheer to churches and families.  He is a former newspaper reporter and columnist, the former lay executive director of a medical research foundation, and the author of a dozen books, including Holy Humor, More Holy Humor, Holy Hilarity, and More Holy Hilarity, which have sold over a million copies. An enthusiast for tennis and the Mediterranean diet that Jesus ate, he lives the message in his newest book,The Physically Fit Messiah.