For centuries, readers of philosophy and theology have noticed parallels between Christianity and Stoicism. Both systems arose in the ancient Mediterranean world—Stoicism beginning with Zeno of Citium in the 3rd…

In the long history of Stoic philosophy, few lives demonstrate the power of ideas more vividly than that of Epictetus. Born into slavery, Epictetus rose to become one of the…

Before the word “stoic” became shorthand for emotional detachment or a stiff upper lip, it was the name of a powerful school of thought born in ancient Greece. Its founder,…