Rory McEntee
Rory McEntee participated in the founding of the interspiritual movement as a close friend and mentee of the late Brother Wayne Teasdale. He is currently the administrator for the Snowmass InterSpiritual Dialogue, which was founded in 1984 by Father Thomas Keating. Rory lives a contemplative life while writing, teaching mathematics and being a father. rmcentee21@gmail.com
Rory’s article, New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Life in the 21st Century, co-written with Adam Bucko, was published in the Spring|Summer 2013 issue of Kosmos.
New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Life in the 21st Century
Article
As we look out at the world today, we take inspiration from what is happening around the globe, from young people participating in movements like the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street; to the new monastic movement among evangelical Christians dedicated to prayer and radical service to the poor; to the conversation among Protestants of an ‘Emerging Church’ (“. . . not a new religion, but a new way of being religious”); to small groups of Muslims who are gathering together, allowing women to lead worship, and reinventing what it means to answer God’s call; to ‘engaged Buddhism,’ blending the sublime practices and compassion of the Buddhist path with social activism; to the ‘spiritual but not religious’ youth who are beginning to take responsibility for their own spiritual lives outside the walls of our traditional religious institutions.