Tag: R.R. Reno

  • The need for basic building blocks in our lives

    We can bemoan the loss of national institutions, but at some point we need to have a funeral and move on to the resurrection of new ideas.

  • Learning from the Pentecostal Monks

    I am lecturing on my favorite subject: Pentecostal monks. One monk who has been influential in my life has been Evagrius Ponticus. In preparing my lectures, I came across this thought from R.R. Reno in “Fighting the Noon Day Devil”: There are no intellectual solutions to spiritual problems. Acedia is fought with spiritual discipline. We hate that. We fantasize about…