Modern Monasticism

Tom Sine of Mustard Seed Associates outlines the fourth stream in his The New Conspirators:

Seed Story: Modern Monasticism
"The monastic stream is different from the other three streams in several important ways. First, most of the groups in the monastic stream have no interest in church planting. Second, while large numbers of twenty- and thirty-year-olds are involved, it is also comprised of a larger number of the over-forty crowd than the other three streams. Is is also significantly more multicultural and multinational than the emerging and missional streams."

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The rest of the articles on New Monasticism on the MSA newsletter is on the extension below.

The New Conspirators: Community Liturgy The New Conspirators: Why a Monastic Rule? The New Conspirators: The Idealism of a Messy Three-Year-Old The New Conspirators: The Broken Among the Broken * Tom’s “Monastic” Book List, click here to download * Word Made Flesh, www.wordmadeflesh.com * New Monasticism/Schools for Conversion, www.newmonasticism.org * InnerCHANGE Ministries, www.innerchange.org * The Simple Way community, www.thesimpleway.org * Third Order of the Franciscans, www.tssf.org * Order of the Mustard Seed, www.mustardseedorder.com * Order of Mission, www.missionorder.org * Servant Partners, www.servantpartners.org * Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor, www.servantsasia.org * Urban Neighbors of Hope (UNOH), www.unoh.org