The man on the other end of the phone was a former pastor, now deconverted from his faith. But his voice lacked the ...

Languishing. That feeling of a lack of motivation or direction. Most people feel a sense of languishing at some point in ...

player take lead one of 8 demonic races that each of them represents one of 7 Deadly Sins (the 8th sin is Acedia). Advertisement All the Latest Game Footage and Images from The 8 Sins: New Hell ...

Here are a few of our favourites. Acedia was a very specific emotion experienced by very specific men in the Middle Ages: monks living in monasteries. This emotion would often be brought on by a ...

Rent it on Apple TV+. Sometimes I Think About Dying feels like a film meant to educate the masses about acedia. It's a ...

The preoccupation with exhaustion goes all the way back to Greek antiquity. In the Greek golden age of the 5th to the 3rd centuries BC, most doctors believed that our health was governed by a ...

Then I learned about the vice of acedia—or sloth. There are two manifestations of this vice—one that resists work altogether and one that stays frenetically busy in a way that undermines ...

Ted Diadiun’s March 31 column, “Gambling’s corrosive toll on sports and athletes,” was very perspicacious. Mr. Diadiun asked: “Why do we do this to ourselves?” Among the reasons are ...

He triumphed over sloth (acedia), that death of the soul which attacks hesychasts in particular, and laxity, by the remembrance of death. By meditating on eternal rewards, he undid the chain of ...

She tells of... In this penetrating theological memoir, Norris (The Cloister Walk ) details her relationship with acedia, a slothful, soul-weary indifference long recognized by monastics.

Rouleau, Geneviève Pelletier, Jérôme Côté, José Gagnon, Marie-Pierre Martel-Laferrière, Valérie Lévesque, Rock and Fontaine, Guillaume 2020. Codeveloping a Virtual Patient Simulation to Foster Nurses’ ...