Abba Agathon (4th–5th c.) does not have even a cameo role in Hugh G. Evelyn White’s monumental and magisterial study of the early Christian monks of Egypt,2 William Harmless’s Desert Christians,3 or Adalbert de Vogüé’s Histoire littéraire du movemen . . .

Something like 90% of classical Greek and Roman literature is lost to us. This realization becomes acute, even heartbreaking, when we think of how very little of the little we have is by women. An exception that proves the rule is Plutarch’s “Sayings . . .

The article offers information on the metaphor and exegesis in the sayings of Amma Syncletica of Egypt. Topics discussed include dismissal of metaphor above uses metaphor; Jewish and Christian exegetes a good living, including Jesus and Paul in Bible; . . .

Caltech Engineering and Science librarians describe their experiences exploring, learning and teaching business information research on a campus with minimal business resources and no business program. Caltech faculty, eager to educate sci-tech studen . . .

A camel, a horse, a troupe of pigs rising from the waters of the Nile; an ostrich with its young; genuflecting crocodiles; souls flying up to heaven, a malevolent giant stopping some of them; a female monk who has transgressed; a dummy dressed up like . . .

The article discusses the practice of transformational reading among monks. It mentions books including "S. J.: Tattoos on the Heart" by Gregory Boyle, and "Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship" by Kathleen Norris which look into the lif . . .

When I first proposed to Father Terrence Kardong a new translation, with commentary, of the sayings attributed to Arsenius of Seeds in the Greek Alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum (et Matrum), he was enthusiastic, but then drily added that he was not s . . .

The article offers the information on the sayings of the of Antony the Great who was the was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. Topics discussed including Antony's spiritual world or psychological world; work and pray, pr . . .

Compared with other eminences of early Christian monasticism in Egypt—Antony the Great, Evagrius, Macarius of Egypt, Macarius of Alexandria, Poemen, Moses the Black, and others—Pshoi of Scetis is relatively unknown, at least in the West. 4 In Coptic . . .

With the four poems discussed in this essay, Rowan Williams brings us deep into a land of both likeness and unlikeness. These thoroughly incamational poems are not besotted with the baby Jesus, but rather turn our attention to ourselves as incarnated . . .

The article discusses the life of the eighth-century holy person Apa Matthew the Poor. Topics include the monastery named after Saint Pachomius probably founded by Apa Matthew, the work of biographer Serapion on the life of Apa Matthew and Matthew's v . . .

Denise Levertov gathered the poems in The Stream and the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes from seven different volumes that, she saijs in the foreword, "trace my own slow movement from agnosticism to Christian faith, a movement incorporati . . .

WHILE INCARCERATED BY the British in the 1920s, Mohandas Gandhi wrote his Autobiography. Having lived, though at a distance, the horrors of World War I, Gandhi seemed to foresee the even worse terrors of World War II and weave those twin self-inflicte . . .

A couple of years ago I was teaching what we used to call catechism but now term an inquirers’ class for newcomers to the parish who want to be baptized, confirmed, or received. During the discussion, a young woman—a lesbian—told us that the frst time . . .

Monks have been in the Wadi al-Natrun (ancient Scetis) in Egypt for almost 1700 years.1 Most studies of early monasticism focus on its history,2 but here I wish to examine its spirituality by looking in particular at the spirituality of early monastic . . .

In recent years scholars have added many up-to-date windows to the ancient monastic dwelling of the holy man in late antiquity. With these constructions they have brought new light to the way we see the holy man: as patron,2 thaumaturge,3 mediator and . . .

Blame it on Walt Disney. Our cartoons have sentimentalized and therefore falsified-the animal kingdom. Think of Bambi and Thumper. Even more, think of all the cute little talking animals that serve as comic relief in recent Disney films, tossing off . . .

Sometime in the sixth century, according to Palestinian monastic tradition, “a certain woman, poor in appearance,” arrived late one evening after vespers at the Monastery of Saint George of Choziba outside Jericho (a monastery that still exists)1and a . . .

Journeying to the interior is both physical fact and spiritual reality in early Christian monasticism, especially in Egypt, where the physical interior is clearly marked and life-threatening. The attacks of the demons in the Life ofAntony demonstrate . . .

Extreme episodic events have the capacity to transport large amounts of terrestrial material to the coastal ocean. While estuaries and deltas are typically thought to trap most of this material, some escapes these coastal features and is transported t . . .