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by Tom Roberts on Dec. 28, 2009
22nd in the series
Here's my latest installment in this ongoing series. This story features a group of twenty-somethings, living in community and exploring the “new
monasticism,” a term that is difficult to precisely define but that roughly describes a search occurring in communities, ironically often of Protestant evangelicals, that have formed with a strong focus on social justice and reforming Christian practice.
On of the people in the feature, Chris Haw, describes the new monasticism as “somewhere between a monastery and a potluck dinner.”
Here's the full story: A place for renegades: Community confronts the 'dark side of the American dream'
What a hope-filled vision.
What a hope-filled vision.
Oddly enough, New Monasticism
Oddly enough, New Monasticism seems to look something like the last 80 years of the Catholic Worker movement.h
or our little hermitage here
or our little hermitage here on the border, if things ever come together as they ought, by your prayers
All you inspired 20
All you inspired 20 somethings if you really want Monasticism at it's very best, check out the newly founded
Green Mountain Monastery those I met there love and honor the tradition, while looking squarely at the future, everything from prayer.... community..... organic farming....climate change..... the poor... the list goes on and on
Tom, thanks for this great
Tom, thanks for this great series! This is what I was looking for back in the 1970s, when I began trying religious life but found it so confusing -- mainly due to shadows of male authoritarianism described in Schneiders' analysis. I like Green Mountain Monastery, too, but alas, am now too old for any of it. But I'm living out my Baptismal priesthood as I feel led. Glad to know good things are still emerging! Being an adult convert to Catholicism during Vatican II, it's been a bit disconcerting at times -- but I still love this "old Boat" and am still out fishing!
Tom, I am enjoying this great
Tom, I am enjoying this great series Great read…..the information is poignant and dead on for today’s society
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Some helpful Eastertide
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Yes, monasticism was always
Yes, monasticism was always the cutting edge of the church in the Middle Ages, greatly involved in evangelizing Europe. Although that initial fire had waned a bit by the 12th century, giving rise to what I'm terming the New Monasticism of the Vita Apostolica. It's so nice that this discussion got present http://www.videorolls.com/watch/Another-Voice-a-Profile-of-New-Monastici...
As someone who swims in “new
As someone who swims in “new monastic” waters, I’ve been frustrated more and more by how careless folks are in articulating the roots of this movement. While many communities are indeed influenced by Catholic religious orders, they are perhaps more influenced by the Catholic Worker movement. And, even more so, they are influenced by the Anabaptist movement. Simply calling it a “new” form of monasticism runs the risk of dismissing the particularities of monasticism, as well as minimizing the radical communitarian impulses of other movements. I understand how drawing parallels to monasticism is helpful in some ways. But putting the contemporary movement of young radical protestants living communally within that particular tradition is, I believe, based upon a misunderstanding of the larger Tradition.
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