Nevertheless, the desert fathers became for me guides of a sort. They demonstrated how to cultivate attunement and receptivity to a place that is gritty and brittle and sharp and spare, ...

Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, has announced a new collaboration with EWTN and Exodus 90 to produce The Desert Fathers in a Year, a podcast series launching Jan. 1, 2025, that aims to ...

Normally I model myself on one of the more retiring of the Desert Fathers, as much as a man living in England with six ...

The freedom of the Desert Fathers and Mothers goes all the way down to their depths and runs straight across the recorded tradition of their lives and sayings. It defines their whole manner of life.

Brother Harold Palmer, who has died aged 93, was a hermit who spent more than 50 years praying on a hill in north Northumberland. He arrived in a caravan in 1971. Slowly, over decades, he turned ...

CNA Newsroom, Dec 27, 2024 / 08:00 am. Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, has announced a new collaboration with EWTN and Exodus 90 to produce “The Desert Fathers in a Year,” a podcast ...