Author: brianandmichelle

  • Modern-day Monasticism, Part I

    This is a 3-part article I wrote about the possibility of living life a little differently.  It was stimulated from a book that I read.  I would love to hear your thoughts (agreement, disagreement, problems with, insights, experiences, etc) regarding it, if you manage to read the whole thing!
    Part I
    When I first heard the phrase [...]

  • Modern-day Monasticism, Part II

    Part II
    Why simply wipe out modern-day monastic communities from possibility simply because our lifestyles potentially look very different today than they did a thousand years ago? I do not think that a monastic lifestyle was a normal expression of life to anyone until they joined one!  Perhaps there was more in the Celtic or Roman [...]

  • Modern-day Monasticism, Part III

    Part III
    Having thought through how a modern-day monastic community might look, I am left with two questions: what would be the point of living life this way, and how would this type of community impact culturally expected aspects of life (work, finances, children, school, marriage, church, etc)?
    Why would anyone want to live this way?  What’s [...]

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