Normally I don’t respond to an article or blog post unless it warrants a response. In the case of a recent critique on the Get Religion blog by Terry Mattingly of Kathy Matheson’s AP story “Penn Class teaches students to live like Monks” about my colleague Justin McDaniel, I am going to make an exception.
Mattingly’s February 14th post “How to live like a monk? Not!” (later changed to “How to live like faith-free monks”), lamented the fact that the AP neglected to talk about a spiritual tradition or any disciplines. Let me quote Mattingly’s opening:
Read Full Article »