On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was surrounded by walls of flames five stories high.
JAIPUR – Over 1200 Buddhist monks from 17 countries, including India, have gathered in Ratnagiri in Jaipur for the first Guru Padmasambhava Chanting Program, which began on January 13 and will ...
His many paintings of friars, nuns and saints for the churches and religious orders of Andalusia earned him the sobriquet “painter of monks.” A favorite subject was Saint Francis of Assisi and nearly ...
Although Christianity is the second-largest religion in Indonesia, it only forms a minority in the country. Around ten percent of the Indonesian population is currently counted as Christian; a ...
While it’s true that traditional monasticism is declining in many historic Christian traditions, new monasticism—the contemporary reappropriation of monastic wisdom—is still very much alive.
Hundreds of adoptions could have taken place between the 1950s and 1990s, say former members. The church in Willington is praised for installing bird boxes, hedgehog shelters and wildflowers ...