In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

When a community of Christian monks decided to erect their monastery on a hilltop in the Judean Desert in the 5th century CE, adorning it with mosaics and polychromatic decorations, they knew they ...

“The sayings of the desert monks of the fifth and sixth centuries continue to inspire readers with their wisdom, and those who read them as the ancients did, slowly and reflectively, still learn from ...