WebMD for the Soul

The Curator Magazine published my article on acedia today (link).  An excerpt:

Once, after feeling awful for a few days but not thinking it was the flu, I sat up in bed, my stomach churning, my whole torso in pain, and asked my wife to look up the symptoms of appendicitis because I believed I had it. My wife went to WebMD, typed in appendicitis, and rattled off my symptoms one by one. I got dressed and we headed off to the hospital.

I had a similar experience when I read Kathleen Norris’s excellent memoir, Acedia & Me, about six months ago….

You can read the rest here.