Monk in the World guest post: Sharon Landis
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Sharon Landis’s reflection on being powerfully ordinary: I write constantly. I cannot stop writing as writing helps me process my life: helps me express my emotions rather than repress, helps me listen to my heart, […]
Monk in the World guest post: Colette Lafia
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Colette Lafia’s reflection on her friend, Brother René: In 2003, at a time in my life when I was experiencing intense loss and grief, from infertility, my sister’s death to cancer, and chronic insomnia, my husband […]
Monk in the World guest post: Hilary Lohrman
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Hilary Lohrman’s reflection on finding the sacred in the ordinary: I am writing on behalf of the ordinary. Nothing special, nothing especially interesting. Just the simple, daily, ordinary content of life and the discovery that […]
Monk in the World guest post: Rachel Regenold
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Rachel Regenold’s reflection on the way creatures can become our soul friends and spiritual guides: A Monk with Four Paws Amos is a monk in the world in disguise with a shaggy coat, four paws, […]
Monk in the World guest post: Elle Bieling
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Elle Bieling’s reflection on the gift of yin yoga (one of my favorite practices!) and the holiness of the body: ‘Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it […]
Monk in the World guest post: Karen Erlichman
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Karen Erlichman’s reflections on the connection between being a monk in the world and the Jewish practice of Mussar: Being a Mussar Monk In Judaism we don’t have monks. I don’t even know if we […]
Monk in the World guest post: Asther Bascuna-Creo
I am delighted to share another beautiful submission for the Monk in the World guest post series from the community. Read on for Asther Bascuna-Creo’s reflections about the vow of conversion (conversatio) in Benedictine life: Always we begin again – St Benedict On the weekend I went out for a walk with my husband and little boy. It […]