novelette, and novella lengths but having no stars, and those with either one, two, or three stars, according to how well the reviewer or reviewers valued a particular story. From time to time you will see more than a single reviewer’s initials following a given...
The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalized and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the Church, they were ordinary Christia...
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after I’d heard the awful news that one of my best friends had died, I wrote in my diary, “I think this will be the year of deaths.” I had no idea how prophetic those words would turn out to be. By the end of 2024, I had lost two aunts, my mother-in-law, my mother,...
How does Thomas ˆ Kempis approach this task differently from the Desert Fathers, Benedict, and Saint Francis? 2. The injunction that one should "have a humble opinion of one's self" and "love to be unknown and be esteemed as nothing" [pp. 4-5] is quite at odds with the culture ...
Sarah: I am readingThe Blonde Identityby Ally Carter– the chapters are VERY short and very fast so it’s a high-octane read, which means I don’t want to read it before bed because it isn’t a winding-down kind of book at the moment. I’m also re-readingNetwork Effectby Martha ...
fathers who confirmed them in their manhood, and when so many of them have been told in the course of their education that they should behave more like girls, be nicer, less aggressive – vast numbers of young men are trying to confirm themselves, give themselves the rite of passage they ...
During a pivotal trip to Egypt in 2002, I found a landscape that both informed and provided a framework for my work in both a tangible and conceptual way. In the Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert, I experienced the ground as a shifting, undulating surface. The sand was alive: it swallowe...
6 Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you[i] remain here? 7 Why do you frustrate the intent[j] of the Israelites to cross over into the land that the Lord has given them? 8 Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from ...
The sheikh is a decorous host. He seats his guests on fine carpets, in a hall that offers shade from the desert sun. He bids his son serve them strong, bitter coffee from a shared cup. He wears a covid face-mask. Yet the code he espouses is brutal. And one aim of that brutality...