CLYDE, Mo. -- Sr. Dawn, who met us when we arrived at the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration monastery here, used to be what I still am -- a Presbyterian. Same story with Sr. Sean, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. _ Mount Calvary looks like your typical monastery. Visitors are greeted by a painting of a white-robed monk, a large cross around his neck and a Bible in his hand, staring ahead.

The address 28 Harpersville Road in midtown Newport News is synonymous with the reflective life and spiritual pursuits. For decades, the Poor Clares, cloistered Catholic nuns of the Franciscan order, ...

This scholarly work is a valuable contribution to the overall history of monasticism in Ireland as it explores “the hidden years” of that tradition, following its much vaunted “golden age” when, as ...