Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, a 25-year-old divinity student at Duke University, is one of the leaders of this movement, dubbed "new monasticism." The name comes from a book titled "Living Faithfully ...

The monastic life is as varied as the monastics who inhabit it. Each order has its own rule, and each rule accommodates its young and old, its sick and strong. Prayer, work, and hospitality—the basic ...

These “new monastics” pursue the ancient triumvirate of poverty, chastity and obedience, but with a twist. Their communities include married people whose pledge to chastity is understood as a ...

Recruiting monastics to promote the party and government is more effective, according to Xiong Kunxin, the expert the Global Times quoted, because “they have a better understanding of the ...

In 2017, over 4,000 monastics were expelled, and 4,700 dwellings were destroyed. The county authorities also issued an order that spelled out the plans for the 2016-2017 demolitions and forced ...

I found that some LGBTQIA+ celibate monastics who are “out” have, at times, been encouraged to keep their sexual and gender identities a secret so they would not be denied access to ordination.

Significantly, Choden's experience with full ordination revealed an encouraging acceptance of female monastics in contemporary Bhutanese society. The support and respect they received from the lay ...

The female monastics at Sri Sarada Math celebrated Sarada Devi’s birth anniversary on Jan. 3, in accordance with the Hindu auspicious calendar. A group of devotees, mostly women dressed in plain ...

The monastics take the vow of celibacy, as a married person cannot enter spiritual life in the monastery. Marriage forms a part of the material world they leave behind in preparation for the ...

There are no Benedictine monastics in this school. Lay women and men have worked to introduce Benedictine values and practices into the school’s entire program, and lectio is central to that effort.

Durga and Sundar are the eighth and ninth Hindu monastics to visit HDS as part of a one-year-long program, which has been hosting Hindu monastics since 2019 and was inspired by a similar long ...

The monastics, as they're known, visited San Francisco from around the US and France this week for Salesforce's 170,000-person conference, where they have a tent set up to share mindfulness and ...