Here are some words from the past two-thousand years about the topic of fasting. I found these words alternately challenging and inspiring. The Didache, a first century document relating core teaching of the early church, “prescribed two fast days a week: Wednesday and Friday” for early Christians; this was seen as a regular part of …
Fasting: Is It Just from Food?
In the midst of all the posts on fasting, a few people have asked me if fasting is really all about abstinence from food, or is it broader than that. I think this is an important question for us to consider within this whole topic. In an earlier post, I defined fasting as "voluntary abstinence …
Matthew Erickson 