Egypt Closes St. Catherine’s Monastery: Confiscates Its Property and Evicts the Monks

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/29/egypt-closes-st-catherines-monastery-confiscates-its-property-and-evicts-the-monks/
#Christianity #Egypt #monks #monasticism

Today's blog post is on medieval prayer gestures in mostly Dominican circles

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

New Medieval Books: The Romance of Mont St. Michel, translated by Thomas E. Vesce https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/new-medieval-books-the-romance-of-mont-st-michel/ #medievalbooks #monasticism #MontStMichel

New Medieval Books: The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History, by Andrew Jotischky https://www.medievalists.net/2025/02/new-medieval-books-the-monastic-world/ #monasticism #books #Christianity

Been genuinely wondering how far #monasticism could #scale up, to the size of an entire town, city, country, etc.

I love the [idea of a] #contemplative life, and am curious to know how #sustainable it could be, eg. combined with growing #organic food locally, doing our own making and mending, and not having to stink up the atmosphere with cars commuting to distant bullshit jobs any more.

1979 The Monastic Council

In this painting, a group of elderly monks dressed in traditional red and white habits with cross insignia are gathered together. Some hold papers or cards while others have smoking pipes or cigars, suggesting an informal meeting or discussion.

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/07-July1979-Page-092.png

New Medieval Books: Hariulf’s History of St Riquier https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-medieval-books-hariulfs-history-of-st-riquier/ #books #medieval #monasticism

New Medieval Books: Monasticism in Ireland, by Edel Bhreathnach https://www.medievalists.net/2024/10/new-medieval-books-monasticism-in-ireland/ #Books #IrishHistory #Monasticism

CHICAGO AREA FRIENDS:

I'm speaking at #Northwestern tomorrow (Thurs 10/24/24) on "What the Nuns Heard:
The Politics of Sound in the Observant Reform of Kirchheim unter Teck"

It's at 4p in the Bienen School of Music

#Nuntastic #Soundscape #Music #Medieval
#Histodons #Monasticism #Dominicans #ObservantReforms #15thc #CountsBehavingBadly #AmWriting

A new blog post, this one on Political Scientist Sean Gray’s typology of political silences

#silence #PoliticalTheory #Monasticism #AmWriting #AcWri #AcademicChatter

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/

An insightful interfaith dialog: https://youtu.be/3Oe0PRxg2xA

Interests
#ContemplativePrayer #Monasticism #Theology #Bible #Trees #Walking #Poetry #Reading #Writing #Making #OffbeatMaths #Deutsch #Cymraeg #Alto

Home
#Exeter #Devon #UK #Europe

Work
#Director #TeaLady #CodeMonkey @WebsitesAhoy

Misspent adult years
#Maths #EnvironmentalScience #EnergyPolicy #Economics #WeatherAndHealth #EcoConsultancy

I've been here 10 months, so it was time I pinned an introduction!

I never did an #introduction post, so it looks like now is a good time.

Hi. I'm Rebecca.

I'm a #teacher, primarily high school English #literacy / #ELA with predominantly second-language speakers. #HabloEspañol. I work in #ChristianEd. I'm interested in everything #education and #pedagogy. Alumna of #ClearTheAir.

My formal training is in #linguistics. I know enough #ASL to get myself into trouble but not out of it. Sign name R-dimple in my local community.

I'm a misfit #Christian who grew up fundamentalist, went liberal Baptist for two years, became a classic case of Young, Restless, and #Reformed (but still Baptist), and am now learning to have no heroes but Jesus. The #Bible is good; #theology is not an intellectual exercise. Holding religious freedom and soul liberty together with a historically Christian sexual ethic. Miss the high church liturgy. #Monasticism-curious. Hate abuse, love survivors. #Missionary sent to the Dominican Republic.

I'm currently learning #photography and currently trying for a year of #WeeklyPhotoChallenge to practice my skills.

It's great to be a Michigan Wolverine. #GoBlue

(PS I manually approve follower requests for everybody's safety- it's a teacher thing - but the lock icon doesn't mean my account is private )

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

“To be a monk meant to engage with texts, be it through writing, interpretation, or enacting in practice.”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/monasticism-and-the-city-in-late-antiquity-and-the-early-middle-ages/38CBB3E9ED81B916BB54A6FF4037C778

Gee, how is AI going to impact the world of #Buddhism? And #Buddhist #monasticism?

"AI is Evolving Faster Than You Think [GPT-4 and beyond]"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIU48QL5Cyk

What assurance is there that every click, every tap in Operating Systems like Windows, MacOS, iPadOS, iOS, Android, ChromeOS, etc. are *not* being sent back to the "motherships" for training all these AIs?

Many jobs are predicted to be impacted - and everyone may be blindly contributing to the training:

That app seems to be imploding on itself. Finding it hard to find people here even with searching - where are some #medievaltwitter #archaeology #landscape #monasticism #fandom #sff #bookish #nuntastic #heritage #comics #tvfandoms #fangirl #actuallyautistic peoples? I’m pretty diverse when it comes to interests.

An #Introduction post:

I’m Pat. I work as an #EngineeringManager in #QualityEngineering. We are a #DevOps / #LeanStartup system.

I’m also an #Adjunct instructor in a masters program in #Seattle, teaching courses that touch on issues in #SpiritualFormation, #Spirituality, #CelticChristianity, #Pilgrimage, #DigitalPersonhood, #Contemplative, #Monasticism, #TransformationalLeadership, #ServantLeadership.

Hobbies: #MountainBiking, #mtb, #powerlifting, #urbansketching, #motorcycling, #overlanding.

Hello brave new mastodony world! I guess I'll introduce myself for posterity:

I'm a #polytheist #pagan and practicing #zen #buddhist #mexicayotl (a revived #religion based on the traditions of my ancestors in #mexico). I mostly talk about #theology, #history, #meditation, #art and #arttheory, #antihumanism and #posthumanism, #decolonialism, #transrights, #ancestorwork, and #monasticism among other things.

Hoping to get to know some folks here, as well as lure more people away from Twatter