My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

CAMBRIDGE, New York After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy ...

2006-10-08 04:00:00 PDT Mount Athos, Greece-- Welcome to the Monastic Republic of Holy Mount Athos. Please set your calendar back a thousand years. Clocks here run on Byzantine time, which starts at ...

So how does an unbeliever like me end up in a place that, according to my spiritual cohabitants for seven nights, lies closest to God? Perhaps because there must be a place for middle-aged Australian ...

Russia’s famed Valaam Monastery, on an island on Lake Ladoga, is renowned for austere boreal beauty. Popular with tourists, it’s maintained in part by Russian Orthodox monks who take vows of chastity ...

I’ve just been made aware of a sad situation that has been poignantly tracked in an online diary. There’s no political point to be made here, only a striking human story about religious life to be ...