Substacks recommended by Katie Gordon | Following the Monastic Impulse

Recommended by Katie Gordon

On learning to love this life

My favorite artist with queer, colorful, and insightful pieces. Her prints are all over my bookshelves and fit right in with my book collection!

- Katie Gordon

Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield

I’m Elizabeth Oldfield and I write about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times. Spirituality, poetry, plants.

Spiritual insights–rooted in religious tradition's wisdom–and translated for a secular world.

- Katie Gordon

Brick by Brick

By Benedictine Sisters of Erie

Ideas and action from a networked community of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie- building a strong community, a just world, and a whole self.

A great publication from my monastic community, featuring voices of young people who have experienced the gifts of monastic spirituality.

- Katie Gordon

Center for Spiritual Imagination

Articles written by novices and members of the Community of the Incarnation, the New Monastic community at the heart of the Center for Spiritual Imagination.

Dispatches from a new monastic community that is on the leading edge of new forms of belonging & becoming today.

- Katie Gordon

Contemplify

By Paul Swanson

Kindling the Examined Life for Contemplatives in the World via podcasts, practices, nonrequired readings, and drink recommendations

Contemplative insights from an "everyday mystic", with wonderful stories and reading recommendations.

- Katie Gordon

Fifth Kind of Monk

By Linda Romey

St. Benedict wrote his 6th century Rule of Life for one of the four kinds of monks he named in that short Rule. After 1500 years, it's time to explore the life of a Fifth Kind of Monk.

My dear friend and collaborator Linda Romey, OSB is a visionary for religious life and monastic spirituality, this is a "don't miss" substack!

- Katie Gordon