Eastern Mennonite University's upcoming play is based on a true story about a nun who didn't quite fit the stereotypical mold ...

Learning From Silence' recounts his refuge in a Benedictine monastery after losing everything in a wildfire. Describing th ...

Credit: St. Anthony’s Monastery The monastery is named after St. Anthony the Great (ca. 251–356), the renowned Egyptian ascetic, known as “the father of monasticism.” The monastery follows the ...

However, few are as unique or as shrouded in mystique as Mount Athos, an autonomous monastic state in Greece. Nestled on a ...

Durga and Sundar — who are members of the Ramakrishna and Brahma Kumaris orders, respectively — described Hindu monasticism as a way to affect broad change by starting within the self.

CUMBERLAND – The Cumberland Public Library, 1464 Diamond Hill Road, will host the program, History of the Cumberland Monastery, on Wednesday, March 19, at 6:30 p.m. It has been 75 years since ...

Saint Eudokia of Heliopolis, a Samaritan woman from Baalbek, Lebanon, lived a life of sin and extravagance during the reign of Trajan (98-117 AD). One night, she overheard a monk, Germanus, reading ...