Truth, Beauty, and Christian Life

Lessons from Fasting Failure...

This year for Lent, I took on the discipline of fasting before the Eucharist. It doesn’t quite rank up there with St Antony of the Desert’s heroic efforts of asceticism, but my spiritual director felt that...

Developing a Taste for Good Books...

Here’s a question: why do people read the classics? It’s not because they’re “important” in some abstract way; it’s not that they’re “good for you,” like literary vegetables. In truth the...

What It Means to Follow Jesus: The Faithful Fishermen’s Perspective...

Following Jesus is not a means to some other end: he is the end in and of himself....

Experiments with a Lenten Cupboard...

Two years ago I tried out a low-key Lenten practice (I won’t dignify it with the name of “discipline”). The idea was to keep a “Lenten cupboard”:...

Recommended Reading: Athanasius’ The Life of Antony...

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in...

The Spiritual Disciplines: Praying the Daily Office...

In 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Paul gives us a bracing challenge: “Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”...

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