For Every New Book, An Old One

May 21, 2012 By 3 Comments

In my freshman “Intro to Christian Spirituality” course at Eastern College, I was assigned Athanasius’ Life of Saint Antony as the first in a series of ancient Christian writers who would introduce me to a new language for my faith–a language, as it turned out, that was so old it looked like new. Thanks in [...]

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Reviving a Radical Tradition

May 18, 2012 By 2 Comments

I love to tell the story about how, in the 1930′s, when Dietrich Bonhoeffer was resisting the Nazis in Germany and praying for a “new monasticism that has in common with the old a strict adherence to the Sermon on the Mount,” a little community of believers, calling themselves the “Bruderhof,” gathered around a simple [...]

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