Of the many great innovations that have been invented on these shores in the name of American liberty, one stands out for having brought spiritual formation and inspiration to millions of American ...

The podcast’s launch coincides with the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, which Bishop Varden sees as particularly significant. Bishop Erik Varden, OCSO, of the Catholic Territorial ...

‘Streams In the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers & Mothers’ by Andrew Arndt. (Credit: Used by permission of NavPress..) Here’s a humorous story that illustrates their ...

The questions that hover in the background of this issue are as pressing as ever. Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know ...

We call them the Desert Fathers, though, certainly, there were women, Desert Mothers, among them. Beginning in the third century, these men and women retreated into the Egyptian desert. They were ...

Now many of those Church Fathers were monks, living in the 4th and 5th centuries, who took off to the Egyptian desert to escape what they saw as the corruption of the church of their day. There in the ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By William Atkins DESERT NOTEBOOKS By Ben Ehrenreich Silent, static, skeletal, the desert has always ...

There’s a certain type of album that has always managed to aggravate every girl I’ve gone out with. It has a kind of compositional dissonance characterized by certain bands that got their backs up – ...