"Like so many others, I had thought chastity a limiting word - a rigid, and a frigid word. I'd associated it with a crippled sexuality... joylessness. [...] Not as something life-enhancing. [...] But as I have said, to become chaste is to find a way of becoming free. No longer a slave to my appetites, instincts, and anxieties. And we all want to be free." In this profound, hopeful and deeply human Keynote, Bishop Erik Varden speaks about chastity - an often denigrated or misunderstood virtue - as a virtue of wholeness, a harmoniousness of self, the way to be "of one piece" in a fragmented world. It is not a matter of repression but of the healing and ordering of desire, a process that leads to true freedom, clarity of purpose, and a life unified around the love of God.