Aren’t our modern lives a bit too … puritan? I mean, spending each and every day trying to follow all these rules and regulations and do’s and don’ts and faux pas and unwritten mandates found in that ...

When we think of the seven deadly sins, the word sloth isn’t the first one to come to mind. Compared to the other sins such as pride, wrath, lust, avarice, envy, and gluttony, sloth seems relatively ...

For centuries, theologians, philosophers, and poets treated pride, envy, sloth, gluttony, lust, wrath, and greed as a diagnostic of the human soul in its self-centered sickness. These sins were the ...

Pope Gregory in the sixth century listed the Seven Deadly Sins in this order: Pride, Greed, Lust, Envy, Gluttony, Wrath and ...

The Slow Movement – that lumbering, late 20th century-early new millennium cultural shift towards taking it easy – is a welcome effort to install much-maligned sloth in the ranks of the virtues. It ...