TO THE GLORY OF GOD

A Theology of Cigar Smoking

A slow-burning meditation on liberty, liturgy, and the fellowship of flame.

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ENDORSEMENTS

"Read To the Glory of God the way you would smoke a fine cigar: Settle into a comfortable chair, light the flame, and savor every draw. Take your time with it. And when you’re done, thank God (and B.D. Fleming) for the gift of his creation. I can’t think of a more pleasant way to spend an evening!”

—JOSH BISHOP, AUTHOR OF CHEERS AND AMEN: THANK GOD FOR GOOD BEER! (LION PRESS, FORTHCOMING)

"Who doesn’t love a good cigar? Only women and children that’s who, and that’s not you. You’re a red-blooded man who is free in Christ. Slow down and step away from the speed and shallowness of our feminized age and share in the joy of masculine fellowship through the ages.B.D. Fleming has done all of us a great service who desire to enjoy God’s good creation responsibly. As you open these pages, light up and think deeply while puffing slowly to the glory of God."

~ ANDY PARKER, PODCASTER AND AUTHOR OF LONG LIVE THE PATRIARCHY. ~

"To the Glory of God is serious without becoming sour, playful without becoming frivolous, and theological without losing its earthiness. At its heart, it is a meditation on the goodness of creation, Christian liberty, brotherhood, and the discipline of enjoying God’s gifts without being mastered by them.Fleming reminds us that the Christian man neither fears the gift like the legalist nor worships it like the libertine, but receives it with gratitude, governs his appetites, and knows when to lay it down. This is theology with ash on the page, and I gladly recommend it."

~ DR. AUSTIN W TUCKER, PASTOR AND AUTHOR OF THE DEACON AND MERCY FOR THE VALLEY. ~

"To the Glory of God is a thoughtful and refreshing treatment of Christian liberty, gratitude, and the goodness of God’s creation.Fleming manages to take a subject many would dismiss as trivial and use it to press into much larger questions about conscience, self-government, fellowship, and the Christian life. This is not a defense of indulgence, but a call to mature, thankful enjoyment under the lordship of Christ."

~ BRYAN D. FURLONG, PASTOR AND AUTHOR OF WITH FIRE IN OUR BONES, TOWERS AT WAR, ORDO SALUTIS FIELD MANUAL, THE DUST WE LEAVE BEHIND & MORE ~

THE QUESTION

What does a cigar have to do with theology? More than you think.

This is not ultimately a book about tobacco. It is a book about whether Christians still know how to enjoy the world God made without confusing gratitude with indulgence or discipline with denial. It is about receiving created things as gifts, refusing both legalism and excess, and learning to use freedom in a way that is governed by wisdom, self-control, and thanksgiving. The cigar simply becomes the case study. By itself, it is just a small, tangible thing, but through it larger questions about pleasure, conscience, fellowship, masculinity, ritual, and Christian liberty come into view.

WHY THIS BOOK?

CREATION IS GOOD

God made a world meant to be received with gratitude and enjoyed with wisdom.

FREEDOM IS A GIFT

Christian maturity is not measured by how many pleasures we forbid.

DISCIPLINE IS REQUIRED

The answer to abuse is not asceticism, but self-government under Christ.

WHAT THIS BOOK EXPLORES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Writer

B.D. Fleming writes about theology, Christian culture, masculinity, household formation, and the recovery of a rooted, embodied Christian life.

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Publisher

B.D. is the founder of The Old Forge Press, an independent publishing house committed to strengthening households, churches, and Christian culture.

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Church & Theology

B.D. serves as an elder at his church in Central Florida. He is a confessional Reformed Baptist and writes from within the historic Protestant tradition.

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Life Beyond the Page

B.D. is a husband, father, churchman, publisher, and longtime lover of good books, strong coffee, bourbon, cigars, hard training, and long conversations around a table.