Some Protestants have been talking a lot recently about a "new monasticism" and this month a group of us have been havinfg a synchroblog on the topic -- posting blogs on the same day on the same general theme.

If you are interested you can find my contribution at Treasures old and new, with links to the posts by the other contributors.

Though the ( Read more... )

I recently wrote something in orthodoxy about urban monasticism and noted that there was an urban monks tribe for bringing together people who are interested in this phenomenon. In that post I was specifically interested in Orthodox Christian manifestations of the phenomenon, but I thought it might be useful to bring together some other other manifestations ( Read more... )