Mark Hicks of The Detroit News covers local and national aspects of the growing Nuns & Nones movement.
Dispatches from the monastery
Halfway through her summer with the Erie Benedictines, Nuns & Nones teammate Katie Gordon shares reflections about the future of monastic life. “How we can we all continue to expand our sense of community? In religious life, in spiritual communities, and even in civic spaces – how can a sense of expansion help stretch our hearts and our traditions even deeper?”
Nuns & Nones on America Magazine's Jesuitical Podcast
Love in a Time of Climate Change
Being each other's keys: Reflections from the Pilot Residency
It turns out, seriously exploring this way of life is a threat to the life one already has…which, of course, is the whole point."
Sarah Jane Bradley was one of the residents of the Nuns & Nones pilot residency. Her reflections are the inaugural blog post of our #surpriseweresoulmates storytelling campaign, highlighting the many instances of alchemy when our communities combine.
For Nuns and Nones' six-month pilot program, millennials move in
Making the Road by Walking: Nuns & Nones Find Solace and Wonder in Community
These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns.
Nuns and Nones event finds bridges in 'Radical Grace' documentary
What's a Nice Jewish Boy Doing in a Convent?
From Adam Horowitz, Nuns & Nones organizer: “A long-form personal essay that chronicles the beginnings of Nuns & Nones, the unlikely path that led me to live at a convent in California, and some of the insights and future possibilities emerging along the way. Whether you’ve never met a nun or are one, I hope that there’s something in this story that speaks to you!”
'Nuns and Nones': An energizing and hopeful story
How an alliance between Millennials and religious sisters has changed outlooks
Nuns and Nones: A modern religious community
In Part 2 of this series, Global Sisters Report explores the parallels between the unlikely community of women religious and millennial "nones" and their potential for a meaningful collaboration. While the decline in numbers at institutional congregations may be a discouraging trend to some, the union of these two groups may answer who could inherit the charisms that animate religious life today.
Nuns and Nones: Unlikely partners tackle the big questions
In Part 1 of this series, Global Sisters Report focuses on the coming together of experienced Catholic sisters and young people identifying as "nones" — shorthand for the box they check next to religion. Women religious and millennials seeking meaning have become partners through a shared passion for social justice issues, community life, and their devotion to a greater purpose. These two groups have found that they are "more alike than not."
