Monasticism

Finding God in the darkness and isolation of Antarctica.

Most Christians aren’t monks, missionaries, or martyrs. We’re unimpressive and unsatisfactory—yet saved by God’s scandalous grace.

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.