The Prayer Foundation has a history of New Monasticism and its roots.

The Lindisfarne Community is a neomonastic network that offers various links and an FAQ on the movement.

The Simple Way is a New Monasticism movement based in Philadelphia.

Penny Long Marler is a professor of religion at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., with interests in the relationship between church and society and religious change. She has written about measuring growth in church attendance.

Prayer services and talk of religious values are common on some teams. Read a Sept. 18, 2005, Washington Post story about a ministry called Baseball Chapel and the practice of players praying before games.

Some baseball teams – including the Colorado Rockies and Atlanta Braves – have held “Faith Days,” in which players share their Christian faith with fans after the final out. It’s optional – fans buy a separate ticket for the “Faith Day” event after the game. But post-game Christian fellowship has become a big money-maker in the minor […]

Anne Clifford is a Catholic nun and associate professor of theology at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She says what is needed in the debate is not the replacement of natural science with theistic science, but a dialogue between scientists and theologians.

As Pentecostalism spreads into traditionally Catholic areas in Asia, Africa and especially Latin America, its popularity has created often fierce disputes with the Catholic Church, as this Dec. 15, 2005, Los Angeles Times story reports.