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The vice of "acedia," often translated as "sloth," can cause laziness, but it is much more than that; it is a lack of caring for anything and being bored with everything, even one's relationship with ...

Summers are hot and arid along the southern coast of Turkey. Sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean makes the heat more bearable, but the terrain remains rough along the hills and water-carved ...

Given the historical associations between universities and the church, it’s probably not surprising that a book on acedia, “spiritual sloth,” or the inability to care, might resonate with academics.

Kathleen Norris' latest nonfiction book is an attempt to resurrect a term that fell out of use in the fourth century: acedia. The word might have died, but the state of being it describes is very much ...

We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods — "a funk," "the blues," "the doldrums." All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something ...

People who are trapped by sloth are usually prisoners of either the future or the past. Their soul does not live in the present, which it finds burdensome. Instead, it tries to root itself in a time ...

We have a vast palette of words that attempt to express our downcast moods -- “a funk,” “the blues,” “the doldrums.” All of them abstractions, euphemisms we employ in an effort to pinpoint something ...

I spent this summer unemployed after a layoff. I hadn’t exactly loved my job, but nor had I expected to be unceremoniously booted from it. It wasn’t a crisis, really—I’ve been a freelancer of some ...