The theme of the March Synchroblog is the New Monasticism.
Phil Wyman writes
Seeing this is month of both St. David’s Day, and St. Patrick’s Day - New Monasticism is an appropriate topic for this month’s SynchroBlog as was suggested by Steve Hayes from South Africa.Let me know if you are interested in adding [...]
We’ve been talking about having a synchroblog on the new monasticism, and suddenly it seems to be popping up all over the place. Hat-tip to Paul Grabill for this link. Paul says:
Having graduated high school in 1972, I was old enough to enjoy the long-distance fruit of the Jesus People Movement (including being a regular [...]
ICXC|NIKA writes
Desert Calling is an Orthodox web forum started by Isaak (Dust and Ashes) not long ago devoted to building a community of Orthodox Christians based in askesis, the struggle against and death to the world in order that we might obtain the Holy Spirit of Peace. Its membership has boomed in a way we [...]
This morning I went to hear Roger Saner speaking about the new monasticism at the Seattle Coffee Shop in Brooklyn Mall.
Roger and I have been reading each other’s blogs for about a year now, and when I heard he would be speaking less than 8 km from where I live, it seemed a good opportunity [...]
In his blog Koinonia Fr Gregory Jensen makes An Immodest Proposal for a restoration of monasticism, as key to the renewal of the spiritual life of the Christian community. This in turn would be the key to the reevangelisation of Western Europe, as Eastern Europe needed to be reevangelised in the 1990s.
Many Protestants are [...]
Eight years ago two monks, Fr Nazarius and Fr Elias, came to see me. After their visit I wrote in my diary
In the afternoon John Palmos, now Fr Elias, came to see me, with Fr Nikodim. They said they wanted to start a monastery in South Africa, and evangelise among blacks, but as they [...]
I’ve posted articles in my blogs about new monasticism in the past, for example at Notes from underground: Urban monasticism and Notes from underground: Abandoned places of empire. You can find others by typing “new monasticism” in the search box of this blog or my other one.
Most of them haven’t attracted any relevant comments, and [...]
After much prayer and several setbacks it seems that Orthodox monasticism is beginning to take root in Southern Africa.
Yesterday Deacon Frumentius was ordained in the chapel of His Eminence Metropolitan Seraphim, Archbishop of Johannesburg and Pretoria, who was celebrating his name day. Deacon Frumentius is married, but was a protege of a
pair of Old Calendrist [...]
There’s a new blog for discussing monasticism in Africa.
The first South African Orthodox monk to be tonsured in South Africa is to be ordained as a priest at 09:00 on Sunday 15 July 2007 at St Thomas’s Orthodox Church, 14 Tana Road, Sunninghill, Gauteng.
There is also an underutilised forum for urban monasticism at http://tribes.tribe.net/urbanmonk for [...]
Most of us have read in the newspapers and seen graphic images on television of the violence and destruction of the Wars of the Yugoslav succession, when Yugoslavia tore itself apart (often with outside assistance) during the 1990s.
But even in the midst of the destruction, there were signs of hope, as some, at least, pursued [...]
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