FREMONT — In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

“God is as close to me than a pinch between my fingers. He’s in all this stuff of life.” That was a paraphrase of Meister Eckhart, famed medieval mystic, by The Rev. Maurice recently, near the end of ...

At the end of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we find Luke Skywalker, dressed in the monklike robes of his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi, looking old and impossibly sad. He is perched at the summit of an ...

FREMONT — In a nondescript two-story house in a residential neighborhood between the Niles Historic District and Old Canyon, two women with shaved heads wearing rust and saffron robes sit on mats and ...

I made my annual retreat at the Trappist Abbey, a Catholic monastery for men, this past week. Situated just outside Lafayette, Ore., the Trappists recently inaugurated an attractive new chapel with ...

Travellers in search of a respite, however fleeting, from the stresses of 21st-century life might do well to consider a more ancient and atypical form of holiday accommodation this summer. Whether ...

CLATSKANIE The Great Vow Zen Monastery, located at 79640 Quincy Mayger Road in Clatskanie, will hold a Beginner s Mind Retreat, led by the Great Vow Zen Monastery staff, from 5 p.m. Dec. 17 to 1 p.m.

Pope Francis has chosen a Benedictine monk of “great culture” and one of the chief architects of a 2015 conference in Florence on Christian humanism to preach at his Lenten retreat in March. Olivetan ...

In South Korea, the distance between Buddhist monastics and lay devotees tends to reduce as monasteries and temples multiply in urban areas. Even the remote mountain monasteries have broadened their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the frantic modern world, the notion of a “retreat” seems to have a currency as never before. The idea has ...