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The “desert fathers” first developed the idea of the seven capital sins. An ancient text from the monk Evagrius calls acedia “the noonday demon” that
If acedia or apathy lies at the heart of climate denial in our culture today, as some keen observers like Lester Brown and environmental lawyers
In a previous DM, I cited Gus Speth, the environmental lawyer who came to realize that the crisis of climate change is not so much
Reflecting on the Nazi state steeped in obedience, Dorothee Soelle writes, Surely it is no longer possible to speak of obedience, as it is here
Dear Chief Justice Roberts, I write you as a fellow American and fellow human being and as a fellow Christian on this day of the
A strong argument can be made that the primal story of our first parents’ sin is not about pride or disobedience but about acedia. Why
The story about Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has often been preached as a story about the sins of pride and disobedience.
It is interesting, I think, that in yesterday’s DM about climate change and in today’s news about rising COVID cases amidst people who refuse to
Healthy artists, working from a spirituality base, can awaken us to our “selfishness, greed and apathy” that were named by a scientist in the previous
Recently I received a significant article from an engineering friend and former student and founder of Engineers Without Borders. It is about two professors (both
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