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The Uncensored Merton
Timothy Jones
Egypt: Church of the Martyrs
Copts thrive in the face of bloody carnage, legal restraint, anddiscrimination.
Timothy C. Morgan in Cairo with additional reporting by Kees Hulsman
Iona's Tough Dove
Though named for a gentle bird, the ascetic Columba wielded enormous influence with chieftans and kings—even after he died.
Thomas Owen Clancy
The Festive Abbess
Legendary Brigit brought joy and the burning presence of God.
Kathy Mulhern
Patrick and Celtic Christianity: A Gallery of Extravagant Tales of Remarkable Faith
The legendary exploits of four early Celtic leaders.
Kathy Mulhern
Antony and the Desert Fathers: Recommended Resources
Antony and the Desert Fathers
Mark Galli
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
Diet For a Large Soul
What monks meant by fasting, and what they ate when they didn't.
Benedicta Ward
Alone in the Desert?
Why thousands of early Christians took up the monastic way.
James E. Goehring
Antony and the Desert Fathers: 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
Antony and the Desert Fathers: Christian History Timeline
A Christian History Timeline
Ascetic Agitators
The early monks not only prayed in the desert but sometimes rioted in the cities.
Kenneth Calvert
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
Into the desert: the first monks
Simon Tugwell
Christian History Corner: Severe Success
Bernard of Clairvaux was a tough act to follow-yet thousands of Christians walked his path
Elesha Coffman
To Skellig Michael, Monastery in the Sky
In search of sacred places
Daniel Taylor
Death to the World
Punks Turned Monks
Fredericia Mathewes-Green
A Home for the Journey
Li Lian Tan
Yancey: A Cure for Spiritual Deafness
Relevance, we have surely mastered. What would happen if we sought a little irrelevance?
Women of the Early Church: A Gallery
A few of the many
MARY L. HAMMACK Dr. Mary L. Hammack is a teacher with more than 29 years of experience at the elementary, high school and university levels. She currently works as a freelance writer and curriculum coordinator, and is the author of A Dictionary of Women in Church History (Moody Press, 1984). AND THE EDITORS
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