October 2015 – New Walden

The Best Version of Yourself

If you have never read anything by Matthew Kelly, you have a homework assignment from me. He is the author of Rediscovering Catholicism and a slew of other books and CDs. One of his key ideas is becoming “the best version of yourself” (Kelly, 2002, pp. 67–69). I would like to make a couple of […]

The Example of the Married Saints

This post has been moved to our new section Christianity.

New Walden’s Mission

What America needs most desperately is a spiritual revival. This is the mission of New Walden. The name of our website comes from Henry David Thoreau’s famous book and so suggests that the Transcendentalists serve as an important inspiration for this mission. They play this important role not because they are any more infallible than […]