After sixty years of living in a Cistercian community, Michael Casey combines his down-to-earth o...

This second volume on Eastern Christian spirituality amplifies in depth the final two chapters of...

During the Middle Ages the act of reading was experienced intensively in the monastic exercise of...

A commonly held impression is that Pope Francis is a compassionate shepherd and determined leader...

The psalms are at the very heart of monastic prayer. Recited seven times a day in the liturgy and...

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

The distinctive prophetic quality of Thomas Merton's spirituality, shaped byfigures ranging from ...

Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohensta...

Christians have been drawn to monastic life nearly as long as Christianity has existed.Dedicating...

Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritua...

To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was ...

For many Christian leaders, the experience of ministry includes enough conflict and disappointmen...