"Do Not Judge Anyone": Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World
A monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.  
 
Too often Christianity has been hijacked by the superego and the good news of grace has been compromised by fear and the rationalization of violence. In “Do Not Judge Anyone” Cistercian monk Isaac Slater reflects on the desert fathers’ teachings and practice of not judging with a focus on contemporary life. Interweaving sources from East and West, ancient and modern, Slater finds profound points of contact between the first monks and figures like Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, and in the teaching and witness of Pope Francis. “Do Not Judge Anyone” offers a radical, refreshing, and deeply hopeful vision of the gospel for the twenty-first century. 
 
Following closely Jesus’s injunction to “Stop judging!” the first Christian monks strongly emphasized the practice of not judging others as central to the gospel ethos. Through captivating and sometimes enigmatic sayings and stories of the desert fathers, Slater shares a monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.
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"Do Not Judge Anyone": Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World
A monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.  
 
Too often Christianity has been hijacked by the superego and the good news of grace has been compromised by fear and the rationalization of violence. In “Do Not Judge Anyone” Cistercian monk Isaac Slater reflects on the desert fathers’ teachings and practice of not judging with a focus on contemporary life. Interweaving sources from East and West, ancient and modern, Slater finds profound points of contact between the first monks and figures like Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, and in the teaching and witness of Pope Francis. “Do Not Judge Anyone” offers a radical, refreshing, and deeply hopeful vision of the gospel for the twenty-first century. 
 
Following closely Jesus’s injunction to “Stop judging!” the first Christian monks strongly emphasized the practice of not judging others as central to the gospel ethos. Through captivating and sometimes enigmatic sayings and stories of the desert fathers, Slater shares a monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.
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"Do Not Judge Anyone": Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World

by Isaac Slater OCSO

"Do Not Judge Anyone": Desert Wisdom for a Polarized World

by Isaac Slater OCSO

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A monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.  
 
Too often Christianity has been hijacked by the superego and the good news of grace has been compromised by fear and the rationalization of violence. In “Do Not Judge Anyone” Cistercian monk Isaac Slater reflects on the desert fathers’ teachings and practice of not judging with a focus on contemporary life. Interweaving sources from East and West, ancient and modern, Slater finds profound points of contact between the first monks and figures like Dostoevsky and Simone Weil, and in the teaching and witness of Pope Francis. “Do Not Judge Anyone” offers a radical, refreshing, and deeply hopeful vision of the gospel for the twenty-first century. 
 
Following closely Jesus’s injunction to “Stop judging!” the first Christian monks strongly emphasized the practice of not judging others as central to the gospel ethos. Through captivating and sometimes enigmatic sayings and stories of the desert fathers, Slater shares a monastic approach to everyday living that applies Jesus’s teaching of radical non-judgement as a balm for the polarized environment commonly found in the Church and the world today.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814689745
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Publication date: 04/04/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 490 KB

About the Author

Isaac Slater, OCSO, is a monk of the Abbey of the Genesee in New York, where he currently serves as novice director and infirmarian. He is the author of Beyond Measure: The Poetics of the Image in Bernard of Clairvaux (Cistercian Publications) and This and That: Selected Short Poems of Ryokan (2026 Monkfish Publishing). He has published two collections of poems, Surpassing Pleasure (Porcupine's Quill), Lean (Grey Borders), along with a co-translation, The Tangled Braid: Ninety-Nine Poems by Hafiz of Shiraz (Fons Vitae).

Isaac Slater, OCSO, a monk of the Abbey of the Genesee, received a licentiate in historical theology from The Catholic University of America. His articles have appeared in journals including Literature and Theology, Cîteaux, and Cistercian Studies Quarterly. He has published two collections of poems, Surpassing Pleasure (Porcupine's Quill, 2011) and Lean (Grey Borders, 2016), along with a co-translation of poems by Hafiz of Shiraz, The Tangled Braid (Fons Vitae, 2010).

Table of Contents

Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1: Mercy 1
     The Gratuity of Grace
     Sacrifice
     Stop Judging
     Unconditional Love
     Original Innocence
Chapter 2: Peace 21
     “Life Is Round”
     Beyond Good and Evil
Chapter 3: Acceptance 45
     The Brothers Karamazov
     Overacceptance
     “Do Not Judge Yourself ”
     Revenge
Chapter 4: Compassion 63
     On Refusal to Judge Our Neighbor
     Humility
     Anger 
Chapter 5: Love 79
     A Handful of Sand
     “This Is My Body”
     Justice
     Sin as Suffering
Chapter 6: Discernment 103
     Wakefulness
     Contemplative Prayer
Chapter 7: Hope 125
     The Crucified
     Universal Communion
     The Impossible Story
     “Mend to Make New”
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