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Benedictine Renewal Program Presentations
Slides from presentation on the future of monastic life Continue reading
Posted in Benedictine, Culture, Monasticism, Sociology
Tagged Future, Modernity, Monasticism
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Leaving Facebook: Exploring Digital Monasticism
I used to think that Facebook, Google, and all the rest were primarily interested in selling my eyeballs to advertisers. In the last few months, I realized that they are interested in selling access to my data to the middle-men of the data world. One of the hallmark’s of Benedictine monasticism is discernment – the process of knowing what is deeply important and measuring choices of action against those deepest values. What would a digital coenobium look like? Continue reading
Posted in Monasticism, Social issues, Technology
Tagged Benedictine, Desert Fathers, Facebook, Monasticism, Privacy
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Seven Monastic Instincts – Sister Karen Joseph, OSB
Image by Edith OSB via Flickr On Tuesday, Sister Karen Joseph gave an inspiring presentation, “Cultivating a Monastic Instinct.” She drew her title and topic from a chapter in a book by Cardinal Basil Hume (himself a Benedictine), originally titled … Continue reading
