Faith

Faith is a universal element of religious traditions everywhere, and even has a “data-sustaining” role in science and philosophy. In no case is an a...

Theophilus the hapless

Not all who are mentioned in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers are hermits. Theophilus, archbishop of Alexandria, plays the foil of torpid authority against ere...

Private property

The concept of private property has a paradoxical career. On the one hand it is held sacrosanct in developed economies as well as primitive autocracies. In the ...

Hildegard’s advice

Hildegard of Bingen is one of those few attractive historical personalities who combines energy and piety, creativity and practicality, feistyness toward author...