Called or Drawn to 'The Abandoned Places of Empire'?

By Sharaya Tindal
Sep 8, 2008
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The very first mark of the New Monastic movement is to relocate to the abandoned places of the empire. However, after quick research, most of the social justice-geared intentional communities I found were either [...]

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