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We’ve heard a thousand sermons about excess.

Almost none about deficiency.

In this episode, we dive into the vice of insensibility — the strange and nearly forgotten sin of refusing legitimate pleasure. Can denying wine, sex, or even simple joy actually be contrary to reason? When does abstinence become pride? When does “discipline” become disdain for God’s design?

Through Aristotle and Aquinas, we unpack why virtue is qualitative, not mathematical — and why the body is not your enemy. To reject pleasure without right reason isn’t holiness. It’s a failure to understand human nature itself.

If you’ve ever confused seriousness with sanctity, this one’s going to hit.

Read Along Here:Summa Theologica. Part 2 of 2, Question 142. Article 1. Whether insensibility is a vice?

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