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Alone in the Desert?
Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way.
James E. Goehring
Ascetic Agitators
The early monks not only prayed in the desert but sometimes rioted in the cities.
Kenneth Calvert
Did You Know?
Spiritual Wisdom of the Desert Fathers
editors
Diet For a Large Soul
What monks meant by fasting, and what they ate when they didn't.
Benedicta Ward
Exorcizing the Desert
The stories of desert fathers' skirmishes with demons pointed to a larger struggle—and victory.
Diana Severance
From the Editors: Models or Kooks?
The questions that hover in the background of this issue are as pressing as ever.
Mark Galli
Holy Land
Sabas just wanted to pray where Christ had lived and died but ended up establishing the most famous monastery in the Judean Desert.
John Binns
Link Interview: Discovering the Desert Paradox
What many found when they sought God in a seemingly God-forsaken landscape.
conversation with Belden Lane, Presbyterian professor of theology at St. Louis U
Recommended Resources: Antony and the Desert Fathers
Antony and the Desert Fathers
Mark Galli
Spiritual Pragmatists
For the desert fathers, theology was not the study of God but the study of how to become like God.
Dennis D. Martin
The Best There Ever Was
Modern Christian hermits still look to him for inspiration, as did the entire Middle Ages, but today we hardly know him. What did the illiterate recluse, known as Antony of the Desert, do to earn such adulation?
Mark Galli
The Christian History Timeline: Antony and the Desert Fathers
A Christian History Timeline
The Gallery: Getting Their Act Together
Monasticism was more or less a solitary affair until these four came along and taught monks how to live in community.
Columba Stewart; John Cassian; Frederica Mathews-Green; Macrina Basil; Marci Rae Johnson
The Life Changing "Life of Antony"
Athanasius's biography was not only a bestseller in its day, but a book that made people stop and think—and act.
David Wright
Wordly Monk
Jerome was a disciplined ascetic who was on top of current affairs.
Kelvin Crow and Mark Galli
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