The man on the other end of the phone was a former pastor, now deconverted from his faith. But his voice lacked the ...

Languishing. That feeling of a lack of motivation or direction. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in ...

Rent it on Apple TV+. Sometimes I Think About Dying feels like a film meant to educate the masses about acedia. It's a ...

Here are a few of our favourites. Acedia was a very specific emotion experienced by very specific men in the Middle Ages: monks living in monasteries. This emotion would often be brought on by a ...

Ted Diadiun’s March 31 column, “Gambling’s corrosive toll on sports and athletes,” was very perspicacious. Mr. Diadiun asked: “Why do we do this to ourselves?” Among the reasons are ...

She tells of... In this penetrating theological memoir, Norris (The Cloister Walk ) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics.

The preoccupation with exhaustion goes all the way back to Greek antiquity. In the Greek golden age of the 5th to the 3rd centuries BC, most doctors believed that our health was governed by a ...

He triumphed over sloth (acedia), that death of the soul which attacks hesychasts in particular, and laxity, by the remembrance of death. By meditating on eternal rewards, he undid the chain of ...

Rouleau, Geneviève Pelletier, Jérôme Côté, José Gagnon, Marie-Pierre Martel-Laferrière, Valérie Lévesque, Rock and Fontaine, Guillaume 2020. Codeveloping a Virtual Patient Simulation to Foster Nurses’ ...

Robby and Southpaw have performed in the city on several memorable occasions – including Faust on top of St Mary’s Car Pak in 2016; Carousel at The Tall Ships celebrations in 2018; Acedia ...