Monasticism

Creative lifeblood from the heartlands

A new biographer finds that consulting the spotty historical record only gets him so far.

Lessons on intentional living from the modern monastic movement.

Even without retreating to the desert, we can train our wandering minds with ancient monastic wisdom.

What Carlos Whittaker learned while living alongside monks and the Amish.

What you need is a church.

We often credit the early church with heroic faithfulness. But it was hardly innocent of accommodation and compromise.

But in Scripture, church history, and singles’ own accounts of their lives, it’s usually not a good thing, either.

These 40 days of self-denial might seem painful during a pandemic. But the habits of “tedious love” are just what we need right now.

I have a legitimate need for monastic silence. But that need is also a serious temptation.