Steven Jones was working at a university in Siberia when his zest for life fell off a cliff. Everything he used to love had lost its flavour and his motivation had evaporated. A colourless mood descended on him, lasting for months.
Steven’s an expert on the late Middle Ages (1100 AD to 1500 AD). Stuck in a Siberian university in the middle of winter, an ancient pastoral tool came to his rescue.
From eight to seven
In the 300s AD, a desert monk, Evagrius Ponticus, set out to analyse the negative workings of his mind and came up with what he called "Eight Generic Thoughts".
What on earth did Jesus mean by ‘judge not’?
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