family as monastic community
anonymous
November 5 2007, 21:03:47 UTC
i'm not sure how blogs work yet, i'm a bit of a luddite here. i'm better at finding information than i am at contributing to it in online forums. so, below is a post i just contributed to an earlier post of yours on your suggested additional 12 marks, just in case you don't wander back to old posts and see who has contributed.
anyways, i found you through my interactions with chris and shane, namely your involvement with the new book. thanks for your thoughts on your blog. we seem to be wrestling with very similar questions, pachomias, monasticism, desert fathers/mothers, anabaptists, intentional community, family as a monastic community, etc. let me know if you would like to interact more directly, email or phone perhaps?
here's my current question... how can a family, committed to incarnational living, the local believing and unbelieving community and being rooted in monastic/anabaptist ideals participate in a redemptive way in a rural setting?
12 marks post below: tell me more about your thoughts on relocation to rural towns and farms.
i'm currently wrestling with this issue as inspired by people like wendell berry, stephen bouma-prediger and others. would you be open to discussing this and your most recent post on monasticism alongside the anabaptist tradition? my wife and i are really wrestling with moving back to our small home town (in may when i finish grad school at regent college) where we hope to farm and put deep/permanent roots down (a vow of stability i suppose).
FYI...i've been following the NM conversation for the last three years, they are an inspiration in my current wrestling as well.
i don't have a blog but i do use email. please write if you have a moment: slowdaycreations@gmail.com
anyways, i found you through my interactions with chris and shane, namely your involvement with the new book. thanks for your thoughts on your blog. we seem to be wrestling with very similar questions, pachomias, monasticism, desert fathers/mothers, anabaptists, intentional community, family as a monastic community, etc. let me know if you would like to interact more directly, email or phone perhaps?
here's my current question... how can a family, committed to incarnational living, the local believing and unbelieving community and being rooted in monastic/anabaptist ideals participate in a redemptive way in a rural setting?
12 marks post below:
tell me more about your thoughts on relocation to rural towns and farms.
i'm currently wrestling with this issue as inspired by people like wendell berry, stephen bouma-prediger and others. would you be open to discussing this and your most recent post on monasticism alongside the anabaptist tradition? my wife and i are really wrestling with moving back to our small home town (in may when i finish grad school at regent college) where we hope to farm and put deep/permanent roots down (a vow of stability i suppose).
FYI...i've been following the NM conversation for the last three years, they are an inspiration in my current wrestling as well.
i don't have a blog but i do use email. please write if you have a moment: slowdaycreations@gmail.com
dave
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sorry to take so long to reply. i was on retreat
on a farm.
i like snailmail letters, so ill send you my
address.
encouraged by your questions.
peace in christ,
chico
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