SPEAKING OF FAITH: 'THE NEW MONASTICS'

I encourage you to tune into this Sunday's NPR program Speaking of Faith about a growing movement of people called the new monastics. These are ordinary people who nurture virtues like simplicity and imagination and who are engaging the great contradictions of our time— beginning with the gap between the churches they were raised in, the needs of the poor, and the "loneliness" they find in our culture's vision of adulthood. The program will feature author Shane Claiborne, who says on his website:

Each of us is created for community, and in the image of community. And yet everything in the world tried to rob us of this Divine gift. The life of the simple way is the story of that struggle to love and to be loved. The most radical thing we do is choose to love each other... again and again. If you are a seeker of the Way, may our story feed you hope... or at least keep you from making all the same mistakes.

Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett is public radio's conversation about religion, meaning, ethics, and ideas. Each week, Tippett probes the myriad ways in which religious impulses inform every aspect of life and culture, nationally and globally. Speaking of Faith fills an important and neglected need in American media by addressing the intellectual and spiritual content of religion head-on, illuminating the ideas and practices that form the headlines from the inside

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