Universally Accessible and Innately Personal: The Significance of Relationship in St. Benedict’s Humility By Elizabeth Elin In a world fraught with desperation and insecurity, humility appears to be an antiquated virtue, frequently discarded due to its destructive effect on self-esteem. Today, it seems that humi... Read More...
TLC’s Podcast Interviews Former ABC Rowan Williams In a special edition of The Living Church Podcast, former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discusses his latest book, The Way of St. Benedict. He describes how he drew on decades of fascination with Bene... Read More...
After COVID-19: A Brave New World? A Bishop in Confinement Wonders About the Future By Pierre Whalon President Emmanuel Macron of France, in a speech on March 12, 2020, described what he thinks needs to happen after the epidemic is over : We will have to learn the lessons of the moment we are going through, to question the development mo... Read More...
St. Basil’s Wisdom on Community St. Basil shows us why life in community is of greater advantage than life in solitary retirement.
Formed by God through Scripture in the Daily Office Out of the dust of the ground and by his own “inbreathing,” God also forms us, who say the Daily Office.
On obedience: We need an abbot Obedience is a choice to take responsibility for our life. An abbot keeps us accountable.
In the footsteps of the historical Benedict Monasticism was born, not out of the moral or governmental failures of a late Roman state, but (ironically) out of Christian political success.
Is the argument lost? Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option I have eagerly awaited Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option. Is Dreher right, or is he just telling people like me what we want to hear instead of what we need to hear?
