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To other generations of Protestants the idea might have smacked of popery or unhealthy mysticism. The withdrawal of small groups for meditation, prayer and spiritual study used to be a distinctive practice of other religions, notably Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. Today, Protestant retreat houses are multiplying. Retreats range from one...
When he was 16, Ferdinand Demara ran away from his home in Lawrence, Mass. to join the Cistercian monks in Rhode Island, stayed several years under monastic rule. In 1941 he enlisted in the Army, soon went over the hill, joined the Navy, became a medical corpsman. His first big...
It would be perhaps going too far to say that Dartmouth is little more than its Winter Carnival, but the perennial February function is indeed the best-known feature of this monastic college. Although the purpose of the Carnival may have degenerated from the intention expressed at the Carnival's...
Conflict v. Adjustment. Until a generation or two ago the U.S. lived by what Whyte calls the "Protestant Ethic" of thrift, hard work and competition, but this is gradually being replaced by the "Social Ethic" of security, collective spirit and "scientism." The ideal of healthy conflict is being replaced by...