All of us at some point have struggled with weight loss, and have tried every trick in the world to reduce weight, whether it is keto, low calorie diet or a no sugar one. However, do you know that to ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...

Most of us probably think of rules as unwelcome limitations on our actions. For years, our society has extolled personal freedom and depicted rules as limitations to be overthrown. But there is ...

(The Conversation) — Christian monasticism developed in part because people were seeking the solace of quiet places. But for them, like us, it was a struggle. In some parts of the world, a mysterious ...

The answer to all those questions is that we live a monastic life — in our prayer life, our community life, our order of the ...

Benedict’s Rule became the gold standard of monastic life. Listen!” wrote Benedict at the beginning of his monastic Rule. Writing around A.D. 540, he offered a way of listening in a setting where ...

What might a sixth-century monastic rulebook have to say about how we live today? Living by the Rule: Contemporary Meets Medieval, the centrepiece of this summer’s exhibitions at the Sainsbury Centre ...

Monasticism developed, in part, because people were seeking silence. Mario Mifsud In some parts of the world, a mysterious “droning sound,” similar to a “a diesel engine idling nearby,” has been ...