One of the best known of the Desert Fathers of fourth-century Egypt, St Sarapion the Sindonite, travelled once on pilgrimage to Rome. Here he was told of a celebrated recluse, a woman who lived always in one small room, never going out. Skeptical about her way of life—for he was himself a great wanderer—Sarapion called on her and asked: “Why are you sitting here?” To this she replied: “I am not sitting, I am on a journey”. I am not sitting, I am on a journey. Every Christian may apply these words to himself or herself. To be a Christian is to be a traveller. Our situation, say the Greek Fathers, is like that of the Israelite people in the desert of Sinai: we live in tents, not houses, for spiritually we are always on the move. We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar, for it is a journey out of time into eternity. * ...
Old-School Workout Methods for Achieving Your Training Goals I admit that I’m not up on anything new in the world of strength training and bodybuilding. I couldn’t tell you a single thing about any modern bodybuilder or strength athlete or any new methods of training. I guess that’s a bit of a personality fault on my part considering the subjects I write about. However, it’s been my view for as long as I can remember that there really isn’t anything new under the mass-building sun. To be honest, there isn’t anything new in, well, anything . There is more stuff that is forgotten than is discovered. And even when something new is “discovered,” it’s more often than not simply something that had been lost. I take this view in almost any subject that I love, whether it’s strength training, martial arts, or even philosophy and theology. I am a classical theist , after ...