Have you watched any infomercials lately – especially those on Saturday morning featuring svelte women and muscular men effortlessly working out on machines that promise to get you into shape or your money back? Our current culture seems to be crazed with the idea of fitness, and for many, fitness has become an idol. But, St Paul tells us we are to treat our bodies as the Temple of the Holy Spirit, and that we are to glorify God with them. Is it possible that there can be a Christian understanding about exercise and its place in our lives? Our guest tells us that God’s command to ‘be perfect’ applies to more than the moral life. He maintains that the stronger and more enduring we make our bodies, the better we imitate Christ who is perfect strength, endurance, and beauty incarnate.