Fintan steele biography of christopher

Chapter 7 of St. Benedict’s fifth century Rule for monks covers one of the many reasons I am no longer in the monastery: “The tenth step of humility is that a monk not be given to ready laughter, for it is written: Only a fool raises his voice in laughter.” I was admonished regularly for my foolishness.

But in my defense, some of the stuff going on around me was just so dang funny! And laughing about it seemed so natural, so integral to my very being.

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Nevertheless, survival in the abbey required a kind of grim surface piety that I just did not have the discipline to sustain. 

I’ve been thinking a lot about laughter and humor lately, thanks to the emergence of Kamala Harris and the grass-root response of excitement and joy to her presidential candidacy.

I don’t think it is a response to any particular policy she espouses or skill she has (although both are important). Instead, there seems to be something about her persona, which is suffused with a