Nuns & Nones is an intergenerational, spiritual community dedicated to care, contemplation, and courageous action in service of life and liberation.
our story
In 2016, Nuns & Nones began as a simple invitation: Let’s bring sisters and seekers together to explore themes such as community, belonging, justice, spiritual practice, and how to respond to the needs of the times. In the years since, those initial relationships gave way to local groups and gatherings, a growing national network, pilots like a six-month residency in a convent, and ultimately—we hope—a new imagination for what spiritual community can be for our times.
While we began as two distinct groups, we quickly realized the heart of our creative potential was in the newness that emerges in “the space in-between” our groups. As a result, we have discovered a shared call among sisters and seekers to support committed communities—new and old alike—to enact the long-term work of repair and renewal that is needed in our world.
In our continued co-journeying, we draw wisdom and hope from the counter-cultural lifestyles, lifelong commitments, spiritual practice, and prophetic action modeled by women religious and spiritual elders, and with that inspiration have initiated new experiments and expressions of lives and works committed to spirit and justice. In 2022, we formally launched two domains of work: an emerging spiritual Covenantal Community and the Land Justice Project.
The story continues from here, no doubt with more iteration and experimentation to come. In the meantime, we invite you to learn more about each project and join us in our evolving story by signing up for our newsletter.
our values
Lived theology. Our understanding of the sacred is animated and deepened through learning and action in public.
Shifting culture and power: We work to dismantle white supremacy and Christian hegemony, and to move money, land, safety, narrative power, and other forms of resource to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) communities and the solidarity economy.
Community care. We are moving away from the capitalist ethic that tells us to accumulate more, look out for ourselves, and do it on our own. In knowing ourselves in community and creating structures for mutual aid, we counter destructive individualism.
Spiritual practice and a plurality of paths. We draw from the wisdom waters and prophetic streams of multiple spiritual and religious traditions. Our practices may differ, but we share a commitment to deepening on our paths and to accompanying one another in embracing an everyday mysticism alit with gratitude, wonder, and creative, compassionate action.
get to know our work
Meet some of our crew! Check out our Community Stewardship Council and the Land Justice team and advisory council.
Learn more about local meetups of sisters and seekers.
Check out resources from recent experiments in shared learning, cohabitation, and starting local groups.
Check out recent offerings on our Land Justice learning platform.
Read about Landback, Regenerating the Commons, and Reparations in our Imagining Land Justice series.
See how we are supporting religious communities in pursuing land justice.