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I was drawn by the abbey’s generous spirit, bountiful table, and stunning natural beauty.

This unusual Ivy League class shows us just how much young people can do -- and even more important, how much they want and crave to do.

Professor Justin McDaniel’s course, Living Deliberately: Monks, Saints, and the Contemplative Life — affectionately known as “Monk class” — pushes students to live an ascetic life and culminates in 30 days with no speaking, no technology and no touching.

In the age of AI, mobile internet and the metaverse, some classes and colleges are charting a simpler path, offering phone-free environments to help students destress and build community. Abigail O’Brien had never heard of Wyoming Catholic College at the start of her college search, but she applied immediately after learning of an unusual policy: no phones. “I was struck that somewhere in our country there was a group excited and willing to give up their phones,” said O’Brien, who graduated from Wyoming Catholic in May. She said the idea of such a place was “almost impossible to pict...

Sr. Dulce Inlayo, OCD, a Filipina Prioress of the Infanta Carmel, lives by her mission to serve God in the congregation of Discalced Carmelites of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel, a community of cloistered contemplative nuns in the diocese of Prelature of Infanta in Quezon…