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On Retreat with Rowan Williams

Rowan Williams reflects on early Eastern monastics’ teaching about the principal interior obstacles to spiritual growth.

Hildegard’s Complex Visions

Phoebe Pettingell reviews Cosmos, Liturgy, and the Arts in the Twelfth Century: Hildegard’s Illuminated Scivias.

March 26: Harriet Monsell, Monastic, 1883

She was nobody’s idea of a typical nun.

Universally Accessible and Innately Personal: The Significance of Relationship in St. Benedict’s Humility

By Elizabeth Elin In a world fraught with desperation and insecurity, humility appears to be an antiquated virtue, frequently discarded due to its destructive effect...

Prayer and the Early Medieval Monk

Renie Choy’s recent book is an invaluable resource to anyone wondering how early medieval monks spent their time or understood their mission in the world.

Greg Peters Joins Nashotah House

Nashotah’s newest professor will be chairman of the first international James Lloyd Breck Conference on Monasticism and the Church, set for June 13-14.

A Novena for Vocations to the Monastic Life

I ask readers of Covenant to join with me in praying for vocations to the religious life.

St. Basil’s Wisdom on Community

St. Basil shows us why life in community is of greater advantage than life in solitary retirement.

Epiphany Seen through Monastic Eyes

The central theme for Epiphanytide is the manifestation of Christ to the world, which leads to the obvious exhortation that every Christian is called to repent and believe in the gospel.

Writer Leads Anglican Dominicans

Novelist and poet James R. Dennis of San Antonio is the Anglican Order of Preachers’ new master.

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