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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acedia is an ancient word that stubbornly refuses to die, despite a history of being deeply misunderstood. Embraced by religious thinkers, poets and shrinks, it has been dropped from dictionaries, ...

A scholar of the fifth century is probably the last person you’d think to look to for a description of our modern woes in the time of coronavirus. But writing on The Conversation recently, Australian ...

How can I find my way in this impenetrable darkness? How can a few words from a psalm that I say upon waking be all I need to begin again, after I have been worn down to almost nothing by acedia? The ...

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 ...