Thoughts on Christian Community
. . .from Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, author and activist in the 'new monasticism' movement:
Christian Community w/Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove from The Work Of The People on Vimeo.
Another Benedict Option Post
From Rod Dreher: A Secularist Sees The Benedict Option : I haven’t mentioned it in a while, but a few years ago, in my book “Crunchy Cons,” I suggested that traditionalists should consider what I called “the Benedict Option” — living in variations of monastic communities for the sake of preserving certain countercultural values in an increasingly dark age. The name comes from the Benedictine monks of Western Europe, whose monasteries were oases of faith, order, and light during the Dark Ages, and eventually helped midwife the rebirth of civilization. Cultural historian Morris Berman thinks this might be necessary. From a review of his new book “Why America Failed” ; the reviewer is George Scialabba: As a former medievalist, Berman finds contemporary parallels to the fall of Rome compelling. By the end of the empire, he points out, economic inequality was drastic and increasing, the legitimacy and efficacy of the state was waning, popular culture was debased, civic virtue among eli
did not see a place to message any of you about the blog from '08 re: "An Anglican Community", but am interested in Anglicans living in community. i found one in my city. it's a bit intense with pretty direct questioning put to people as they share personal stuff: daunting, but productive, if you can tolerate this as you are just getting to know the group! there's also some inclusivism or universalism. -all to say, there's one in my city, but for various reasons, but i'm still looking. please do keep me up on communal groups that are forming, discussion groups, forums on the subject.
ReplyDeleteLeeAnn, so sorry, but I just saw that this comment was in the pipeline. Please let us know if you find something out there.
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