Christian mystics have a curious magnetism in these troubled times. Can we understand them on their own terms?| www.passiozine.com
The first monastic 'rule of life' appeared not that long after the original desert hermits. What do these first steps of formalisation show us?| PASSIO
Participants in a Peace Pilgrimage choose to walk, often for several days, to the DSEi Arms Fair — in protest, and reflection, on the arms trade.| PASSIO
Or, the reassuring complexity of the 'Patron Saint of Difficult Personalities'| www.passiozine.com
Paul McGowan | What if the 'Parable of Talents' is not a lesson about 'gifts', but a story about collaboration and resistance?| www.passiozine.com
The undercurrent of hermits 'competing' to be the lowest and the least parodies the Roman world of power, prestige and privilege.| www.passiozine.com
Maps to a more meaningful life, in all its joys and sorrows. Digging into monastic tradition, and learning from modern-day unsung saints. Solidarity, ecology, prayer. Click to read PASSIO, by The Passio Project, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| www.passiozine.com
Community gardener and Uni chaplain Samuel Ewell shares what plants have to teach us about the economy of gifts.| www.passiozine.com
What the diaries of a mystic tell us about 'letting go'| www.passiozine.com
On the face of it, the most long-running anarchist commune in Western history had no investment in what it was building: the end was wired in.| PASSIO
Artist and practical theologian Vanessa Chamberlin describes the work of putting our physical selves in the stories of scripture.| PASSIO
The hermits sought to overcome the sexual predations of patriarchy, but they left some difficult questions behind them| www.passiozine.com
The hermits show us the easily missed connection between personal spiritualities and the political economies they lean toward| www.passiozine.com
In her own words: Lydia Hiorns, from Shieldfield Art Works, on hospitality as a way of life.| www.passiozine.com
Unpicking the surprising, and moving, practicalities of early ascetic lives.| www.passiozine.com
Piecing things together with Rev'd Nadim Nassar: priest, firebrand, and director of the Awareness Foundation.| www.passiozine.com
Do the heavenly-minded find paradise on Earth intentionally, or just as some by-product of other choices?| PASSIO
A well-meant dishonesty seems to go by uncommented by the Desert Fathers & Mothers. But then again, what would you prefer?| PASSIO
How a murder mystery and a miracle give us a glimpse into a life beyond the law.| PASSIO
What if desert ascetics were escaping from the political realities of violent rule—in the one place they could control?| PASSIO
Our friends at Catholic Worker Calais share snapshots of life among the refugee population in limbo there.| PASSIO
Ulterior Lives: A reminder of the necessary joy that animates all our efforts and theories of change.| PASSIO
Digging into the history and the social politics of monasticism, with the Passio Project.| www.passiozine.com
