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In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a monk lifted Jesus' teachings off the printed page and...

Richard Foster has said, “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people or gifted people, but for deep people.”1 In many respects we live shallow lives, easily entertained by celebrities, trivial pursuits, and consumer products. A deeply rooted spiritual life is desired by many, but its cultivation seems to escape just as many. What does such a life look like? To what or to whom can we turn for guidance? We are tempted to
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