"Imagine a world in which people would face the situation that we are in and ask the question: "Isn't there something we can do?' " Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast said. "Surely we could do ...

KATE OLSON, correspondent: On a recent Saturday morning at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California, church members and neighbors gathered to hear Brother David talk about living “a ...

Brother David Steindl-Rast is a Benedictine monk and one of the leading figures in a worldwide gratitude movement. Long before gratitude became a hot topic of scientific research, Brother David was ...

CLIP: Brother David Steindl-Rast on the Life of a Benedictine Monk Oprah Winfrey is joined by Brother David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk, author and scholar, to talk about the true source of lasting ...

It’s hard work for a hermit, but David Steindl-Rast periodically sets his beloved solitude aside to undertake strenuous lecture tours, discussing his ideas with everyone from Green Berets to New Age ...

We all want to be happy, says David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you're going, and above all ...

One of the founders of the contemporary renewal of the reflective tradition in Christianity. Benedictine monk David entered the interfaith dialogue movement relatively early for a Catholic- commencing ...

Benedictine Br. David Steindl-Rast tells Fox: The monotheistic notion of God that we have inherited, the notion that God is separated from us, that God gives us gifts and demands certain things of us ...

Imagine a world in which all of life sings the song of gratitude and imagine that it can really happen! You might think it's an impossible dream considering the current state of the planet, with its ...

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This Catholic Benedictine monk says grateful living is a spiritual practice. For decades Brother David has lived part of his life as a hermit, in prayer and contemplation and writing books. The other ...