being a Benedictine monk

Recently friends from a major publisher of Sunday school curriculum called me. They were researching trends in spiritual formation, they said, and they thought I might help them.

After a few warm-up questions, they got to the heart of the matter: "What would you recommend for spiritual formation in our time?"

"The monastery," I said.

There was a long pause.

read the rest:
spiritual formation: we've already got a proven model, but do we want it?
Out of Ur blog

This is another reason why level-headed "emerging church" people aren't really theologically all that scary. Emerging thought isn't trying to re-invent the wheel. It's often discovering what made the wheel in the first place.