Consumed

Gluttony, Worship, and the Reordering of Desire

Gluttony is rarely about food.

In Consumed, Ashley Sartin explores gluttony not as a problem of excess alone, but as a disorder of desire-one that reveals where trust has thinned and appetite has been asked to carry more than it was designed to bear. Drawing on Scripture, psychological insight, and careful theological reflection, this book reframes hunger as something created, meaningful, and deeply connected to worship.

Rather than treating appetite as an enemy to defeat or a weakness to manage, Consumed examines how food becomes comfort, control, escape, and regulation when trust feels unsafe. It traces how fear, scarcity, shame, and embodied memory shape eating patterns, and why excess often develops quietly as a reasonable response to distress.

This is not a book of rules, diets, or techniques. It does not offer quick fixes or moral pressure. Instead, it invites readers to consider what hunger is pointing toward, what desire is being asked to resolve, and how appetite can be restored to its proper place without fear or shame.

Through chapters on trust, discipline, enjoyment, communion, and Christ's own relationship to hunger, Consumed offers a vision of freedom that is steady rather than dramatic-one marked not by mastery, but by peace that does not panic.

For readers seeking a thoughtful, embodied, and grace-centered approach to gluttony, Consumed offers a quiet reorientation: not toward wanting less, but toward wanting rightly.