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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...

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...

After COVID-19: A Brave New World? A Bishop in Confinement Wonders About the Future

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...

Augustine, Benedict, and the Future of Christianity in the West

The Christian pastor, as a teacher of rhetoric, seeks to delight and persuade in pursuit of God, who is the source of true delight and true blessedness.

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.

Sons and Daughters of Benedict

Ecumenists John Gibaut and Henry Wansbrough converse at Ampleforth Abbey.

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?

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