If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him rejoicing enter into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in fasting, let him now receive his recompense. If any have wrought from the first hour, […]

More often than not, we get to the point of loving a person for what they are like by first finding common ground in what we like.

All the monk’s practices aim to transform and tailor the inner life. The liturgy, the forms, the calendar. And the prayer. Christ of course withdraws over and over again in the Gospels, away from the crowd. Like a refrain, like liturgy.

The presumption that the profit-motive is a species of greed is false. This economic wisdom from the ancient Egyptian desert proves timelessly prudent, still relevant for our own context today.

Dylan Pahman reviews Dennis Ockholm’s new release from Brazos Press, Dangerous Passions, Deadly Sins: Learning from the Psychology of Ancient Monks.

Constructive Christian social thought will refuse to entertain argumentative scapegoats.

Dylan Pahman reviews John Behr’s recent release, Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image, by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press.

Ironically, what we need most of all to promote the universal common good is not a world political authority, but a world spiritual authority.