In 1206, a wealthy merchant’s son stood in a public square in Assisi, handed back every possession he owned—including the clothes on his back—and walked away smiling.
This is not a story about poverty. It’s a story about what happens when someone decides the thing everyone is chasing isn’t actually the thing.
Francis of Assisi was charming, comfortable, and on track for exactly the life his world said he should want. Then something shifted—a war, a prisoner-of-war cell, a leper on the road—and he started asking a question most people never let themselves ask.
What if security isn’t safety? What if accumulation isn’t freedom?
What he found on the other side of that question became one of the most disruptive spiritual movements in church history. And it still has something to say to anyone building a life they’re not entirely sure they want.
This episode is about Francis—but it’s really about what we hold onto, and why.
