The Lindisfarne Community

The Lindisfarne Community An ecumenical religious order in apostolic succession practicing secular monasticism. We are committed to the "new (or secular) monasticism."

The Lindisfarne Community is an independent, ecumenical religious community in the Anglo-Celtic tradition. A friend of the community described us as "A religious order with apostolic succession." Our mother house, the home of our abbess and abbot, is in Ithaca, NY. We have professed members from a number of nations: the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Germany, Indonesia, and South Africa. Our spirituali

ty is a balanced life of prayer, study, service and rest . . . . a new form of monasticism. We are relational, egalitarian, contemplative, sacramental and inclusive. We are part of the "emerging church" exploring new ways of being Christian in the twenty-first century. We have an annual retreat in the USA and occasionally in the UK. We are deeply rooted in historical Christianity, yet are open to insights from other traditions. Our prayer is "to be as Christ to those we meet, to find Christ within them." We have embraced emphases from, among others, the Celtic Christian communities of the fourth to ninth centuries in Northern Britain and Ireland; the desert fathers and mothers and the early monastic movement; the Christian mystics; the radicals of the sixteenth century; the charismatic, Christian feminist and home church movements of the twentieth century. Community members have received wisdom from Buddhist, Daoist, Hindu, Jewish, and secular traditions, in the belief that "all truth is God's truth."

05/03/2026

Today’s lectionary text is a rich and difficult passage (John 14;1-14). I think it is key to remember that this was penned to a community u...

04/26/2026

This morning I was taken by the freshness of a late April morning. The mourning doves called. Chickadees chattered in the trees. A tufted titmouse sang from somewhere I could not see. The grass was wet with dew. The pugs snuffled in the rhododendrons. The sky was bright with the new sun.T. S. Eliot....

04/12/2026

Students often ask me, “Do you believe in the existence of G*d?” Sometimes the question is sincere and searching. Sometimes it comes with a sharper edge, as though they are trying to work out whether I can be trusted before they have even heard me teach. That is understandable. Some students arr...

Happy Easter
04/05/2026

Happy Easter

Christ is risen. Christ is risen indeed. What a sad couple of days it had been. Jesus was dead, and with that so, too, were all the disciple...

03/29/2026

Forty-three years ago I came to the realization that I was a pacifist. That realization came during a recruitment week for British Army chaplains at Bagshot Park in Surrey, then the home of the Royal Army Chaplains’ Department.I want to say clearly that I did not arrive at that realization from a ...

03/22/2026

This weekend was the Spring Equinox (20) … now the light is winning! It is a wonderful time of the year as, in upstate NY, nature seems to b...

03/15/2026

It has been a brutal winter but we enjoyed a few warm days. Last week, Jane and I found ourselves outside in short sleeves. The media called it a “false spring.” We prefer to call it a foretaste of spring.The snowdrops are already out. Perennials are beginning to push through the soil. Buds that...

02/01/2026

I have been writing in journals on and off since the early 1980s. It has not been continuous. There have been long stretches when I have not...

01/18/2026

Last week I learned that my car is subject to a major safety recall. The defect is serious. In similar vehicles, the EV battery has caught f...

01/04/2026

I’m a creature of habit. With no need for an alarm, I woke Saturday morning quite naturally. After a few minutes enjoying the sweet sense of...

12/25/2025

When I was a traditional minister, preaching sermons at least twice a week for forty-eight weeks of the year, I both loved and dreaded the C...

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