The City Is My Monastery: A Contemporary Rule of Life

by Richard Carter

Book Overview

In the midst of an established monastic life, Richard Carter answered a new call, leaving his life of 15 years in the Melanesian Brotherhood to answer a need in a busy church in the heart of London, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields. There Carter founded the Nazareth Community. Its diverse members--in Samuel Wells' words from the foreword, "a community of faith and forsaken, wondrous and woolly"--gather from everyday life to seek God in contemplation, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640605827
• ISBN13: 9781640605824
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.4"