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Solitude Among Saints and Artists

Solitude encourages us to seek inner serenity, to affirm the spirit, to recognize creative possibilities.

Podcasts: Classic Texts in Times of Crisis and a Playbook for Anxiety

Two new episodes of The Living Church podcast for your listening pleasure: Classic Texts in Times of Crisis: Thomas Merton What are some of the benefits and dangers...

Distraction

We keep ourselves busy with school and work and play — all to avoid being alone in a quiet room. We fill our lives with distractions to avoid knowing ourselves, to avoid seeing and thinking about what we are, where we come from, where we are going.

Holy living in the PhD desert

In those PhD years, I think I learned a number of things about structure, sin, silence, and solitude.

From Ephesus to Lafayette

“He withdrew again to the mountain by himself.”

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