Date of source: Sunday, September 10, 2006
This article is a review of the book ‘Words to live by,’ a book by Coptic scholar and priest Tim Vivian who shares personal accounts of journeys to present-day monasteries in Egypt and translations of ancient texts that reveal insights that have guided desert monks for nearly two millennia.
Date of source: Sunday, October 3, 2004
Now Benedicta Ward SLG and Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, have joined (or, better, rejoined) the caravan out to the desert--not, fortunately, as tourists but as seekers and translators. Dr. Rowan Williams’ Silence and Honey Cakes illustrates the wisdom Coptic monastic life. Sister...