How would you explain monasticism to Protestants who feel Christians should be out in the world, seeking to convert lost souls? To them, monks/nuns are hiding from society’s ills, not helping to mend ...

Last year at this time, I was living at Mount Michael Abby in Elkhorn, Neb. The Benedictine monks were kind enough to let me come and be a part of their community. It is a week I will never forget. My ...

Many Catholics and Protestants are looking back to Benedict for the community and spiritual intensity they can’t find in modern culture. Christians struggling for sanctity in a too-comfortable world ...

”Merton & the Protestant Tradition” edited by William Oliver Paulsell. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2016. 200 pages, $25.95 (paperback). The book “Merton & the Protestant Tradition” is about the ...

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove is a co-founder of Rutba House, a New Monastic community in Durham, NC. He is also author of several books, two of which, The Wisdom of Stability and a contemporary ...

In the little French hilltop monastery of Taize, a retreat was in progress last week. At 3:30 a.m. the cowled, white-robed brothers filed into the dwarfish Romanesque church. Their young voices softly ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff (Author), Galli, Mark (Editor), Olsen, Ted (Editor), Packer, J. I. (Foreword) Just do a quick search on Amazon.com and you’ll see what I mean. Titles like ...