With some communities in rebooted lockdown conditions and movement restricted everywhere else, no one is posting pictures of their sourdough. Zoom cocktail parties have lost their novelty, Netflix can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We have a profile today of the poet and writer Kathleen Norris, whose books have won her many admirers, especially among religious believers. After nearly 10 years of literary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mind the Art Entertainment in association with The Brick, have announced changes to the performance schedule for Christian De Gré Cárdenas' award-winning ACEDIA: An Apocalypse Trilogy due to cast ...

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 ...