We spend our lives trying to get more—more comfort, more security, more control.
So why would anyone willingly give something up?
In Episode II of this Lenten series, Chesterton Radio returns from Atchison, Kansas to explore one of the strangest and most powerful ideas in the spiritual life: that we understand things most clearly when we go without them.
Fasting is not about rejecting the world.
It is about seeing it.
When bread is removed, even for a moment, it stops being ordinary—and becomes what it always was: a gift.
Drawing from Scripture, lived experience, and a deeply human understanding of hunger, this episode reveals why absence sharpens vision, why limits reveal truth, and why dependence is not weakness—but reality.
“We fast from bread not because it is unimportant… but because it is too important.”
If Episode I asked what we are hungry for—
Episode II asks what hunger is trying to teach us.
🎧 Episode II of III — The Paradox of Bread
👉 Continue to Episode III: What We Fight For
