Establishing a meditative life can lead to a more settled and attentive mind, but to what end will you direct these capacities? If you are more attentive, to what will you direct your attention? If ...

Jesus is the reason to stop concentrating on ourselves. Innumerable Christmas devotionals point out the humble circumstances of Jesus' birth—among shepherds, in a crude stable, with a feed trough for ...

Archeologists dig to uncover facts. In their own way, clinical therapists, physicists, reporters, spies and surgeons do, too. When all have completed their work, they leave the office with some hard ...

It’s hard to be humble. St. Benedict (480-547), called the “Father of Western Monasticism”, wrote a guide to humility that is still popular today. The guide is a chapter within Benedict’s Rule, which ...

I made a new friend recently: Dr. Kari Konkola. He has a doctoral degree in history and has spent a long time examining what are called Confessors' Manuals, which are medieval Latin texts by Christian ...