New Monasticism...MPR

Lighting candles as devotion. (David Silverman/Getty Images

My friend James Kingsley first gave me the heads-up about this over at " The Locals " here in Victoria. Minnesota Public Radio Host, Kerri Miller has a great podcast and conversation around new monasticism. It took awhile to come up with the link, due to MPR's audio site being down. But after an e-mail, and also discovering Kerri and her husband had treked around Vancouver Island last summer...we managed to get the link to the podcast...you can listen...Here.

A new generation of religious communities is springing up around the principles of "new monasticism," in which people live among and provide hospitality to those in need. Midmorning looks at how these communities work and their surprising influence on mainstream Christians.

Guests

Diana Butler Bass: has studied emergent congregations, including new monasticism. She's the author of "Christianity for the Rest of Us."

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: runs the Web site, New Monasticism.org, which outlines the 12 marks or principles of the communities. He co-founded, with his wife Leah, Rutba House in Durham, North Carolina. He's the author of the book, "To Baghdad and Beyond."

Maria Kenney: part of Communality in Lexington, Kentucky.

Again Kerri, thanks for going out of your way, digging up the link...and for making us aware of this interesting conversation around monasticism that is still reverberating around faith communities trying to live faith more authentically.

Listen to New Monasticism podcast Here...courtesy of Minnesota Public Radio.

Comments

[James Kingsley]

Thanks Ron! Nice digging....would you mind cross posting this on the http://www.ecanvic.blogspot.com>Locals site?

Cheers,
James

[Paul Fromont]

Hi Ron. Pity I couldn't hear it. It would have been good if it had been available as a downloadable Mp3.

[ron]

Hi Paul, thanks for dropping in...it's too bad you couldn't listen, it was a great conversation. I'll see what I can do about getting it in mp3 format and e-mail it to you. Peace...Ron+