Useful Links

Here are some links to useful resources:

Spirituality

• The Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
• Renovare
• Internet Resources on Christian Asceticism
• Spiritual Directors International
• Soulsculpting

Monasticisms New

“New Monastic” expressions and “Intentional Christian Communities” emerge, change, and dissolve all the time. This list is my own collection of largely ecumenical or Protestant groups: residential communities, gathered monastic-ish experiments, dispersed networks exploring common Rules of Life and so on.

• For a list of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life within Roman Catholicism, click here (and toggle between women’s and men’s groups)
• For a map of intentional Christian communities associated with the Nurturing Communities Network, click here.
• For links to some exploring connections between higher education and intentional community/new monastic living, click here.

The List

• 24-7 Communities – “24-7 Prayer communities are a growing international family of Churches, Houses of Prayer (HOP) and New Monastic Communities (NMC).”
• Anamchara Fellowship
• Axiom Global Monastic Community — a virtual and a realized global network of aspiring Contemplative Activists. partners with YWAM
• Brazos Societies — a ministry of the Brazos Fellows, “inviting young adults to go deeper in their faith and become rooted for a lifetime.”
• Bruderhof Communities —  a network of residential Christian communities “who, inspired by the early church, share all our money and possessions.”
• Church of the Sojourners, San Francisco, US. “We seek to respond to Christ’s call by living together family-style, sharing our homes, resources, and friendship, our weaknesses as well as our strengths.”
• Community of Aidan and Hilda, Open Gate Retreat Center, Holy Island at Lindisfarne, UK
• Community of Celebration, Aliquippa, PA
• Community of the Beatitudes, Denver, US
• Community of the Inarnation (Dispersed, [co-founded by Adam Bucko] headquarters in NYC)
• Community of Peace (Louisa, VA)  – “ecumenical Christ-centered community of welcome, sung prayer, dialogue, and solidarity for the purpose of healing transformation.”
• Consortium of Christian Study Centers
• Dandelion House — Affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement. Portland, OR
• Eden Community
• Hope Fellowship
• InnerCHANGE
• Iona
• Iona House (Placerville, CA) cohorts of resident learners, retreat guests, agriculture . . .
• Jesus People USA
• Jubilee Partners
• Koinonia Farm
• L’Abri Fellowship International
• L’Arche International
• Missional Wisdom Foundation, Texas, US (with new expressions in the US)
• New Monastic Roundtable
• North American Network of Charismatic Covenant Communities
• Northumbria Community Online
• Nurturing Communities Network
• Order of Mission, UK headquarters with members worldwide
• Order of the Common Life
• Order of the Mustard Seed
• Praxis Rule of Life — A Rule of Life for entrepreneurs and others called to enterprising leadership
• Prayer Foundation
• Raven’s Bread (intentional solitaries worldwide)
• Reba Place Fellowship, Evanston, US
• Rutba House Community
• Sant’Egidio
• Servant Partners
• Servants (Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor)
• Simple Way
• Simple Way
• Solas Bhríde
• Springwater Community
• St. Brigid of Kildare Monastery, St. Joseph, US
• Taizé
• Urban Neighbors of Hope
• Word Made Flesh, US headquarters with teams worldwide
• Youthfront LaCygne

International Communities

Here are a few more international Christian communities from the European side of the pond:

• montmirail.ch/index.php/de
• www.moosrain.net/de
• www.chemin-neuf.es/es
• www.christustraeger-bruderschaft.org
• www.wirkraumkirche.ch/DE/6/Stattkloster.htm
• www.steppenbluete-communitaet.ch
• www.housy.ch
• www.stadtkloster.ch
• www.ojc.de
• www.grandchamp.org
• www.dihei.org
• www.lagrandetablee.ch
• kleiklooster.nl
• oasistrails.org

Monasticisms Old and New

• Mucknell Abbey, Worcester, England
• Center for the Study of Consecrated Life

Social Media

There are a few “new monasticism” Facebook groups. I will post them here as I locate them:

• A300 is training for people who want to pioneer the start of a New Monastic Community or live as urban Monks in European cities.
• New Monastic Network self-describes as “Building new monastic ecclesial communities out of contextual mission.”

“Monasticisms Old”

This is a very brief list of a few key groups. For more see the list of Roman Catholic Orders above.

• This incredible list of religious orders and congregations can be found at LivingWeb.com.
• Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents 
• List of Eastern Orthodox Monasteries in the United States
• The Order of St. Benedict (Benedictines) For other Orders of the Benedictine family, check out the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (Trappists),
  or the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur (a community of the Camaldolese Order)For the Augustinian heritage, see the Order of St. Augustine
• The Franciscan Archive
• Official sites of the Franciscan First Order,Second Order (Poor Clares),Conventuals, Capuchins of the Province of St. Mary and the Third Order Regular
• Order of Preachers (Dominicans)
• The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in the United States

Evangelical

• The Evangelical Theological Society
• The Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals
• Christianity Today, Books and Culture, and more