Fasting: The Ancient Practices (Biblia.com)

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“Fasting is the body talking what the spirit yearns, what the soul longs for, and what the mind knows to be true.” — Scot McKnight Christianity has traditionally been at odds with the human body. At times in the history of the church, Christians have viewed the body and physical desires as the enemy. Now, Scot McKnight, best-selling author of The Jesus Creed , reconnects the spiritual and the...

will love us if we change, but God loves us so that we can change. Penitential practices and disciplines [like fasting] enable us to appropriate and make real in our lives the freedom given through grace.”9 No one puts this montage together better than Amy Johnson Frykholm. “Fasting,” she concludes, “is about three things: attentiveness, compassion and freedom.”10 With so many witnesses before us, is there anything left to be said? I think there is. Allow me to lay my cards on the table right

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