Contemplative Communities

Carmelite hermitage in the Washington woods, where ‘prayer is friendship with God’

Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

Three Dominican nuns formed new community in 2007, pray seven hours a day

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

Researcher finds something deeper, life-changing within anonymity of the cloister

By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans

Trappistine nuns find home in Lutheran Norway

By Sheryl Frances Chen

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A powerful silence: The somewhat hidden witness of American contemplative orders

ByElizabeth Eisenstadt Evans