At CNN, with additional analysis at GetReligion.
The Last Patriarch of Constantinople?
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At CNN, with additional analysis at GetReligion.
The last section is focused on the author’s monastic life, but the need to maintain focus and set aside distractions applies to all of us. When I left Facebook I described it as a “time sink.”
The Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House.
I went to a retreat there in my Stanford days, back in the ’70’s. That weekend greatly influenced how I understand the world.
Occasionally over the decades I have thought about visiting it again. I can’t now.
Faith Lessons from Knitting. Sister Edith is one of my oldest friends–I think I met her back in 1967. She is a classmate from both High School and College, and was a fellow folk dancer at Carleton.