John Michael Talbot is the real deal. Here is a guide to new monasticism that exudes wisdom and carefully considers the questions that have arisen through decades of practice. If youre serious about asking what monasticism means for the church todayabout what it means for youread this book.Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Author of New Monasticism Co-compiler of Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals Member of the Rutba House community in Durham, North Carolina This book presents one of the first views from inside a new type of monastery in the Church. Drawing on John Michael Talbots twenty-five plus years in community, it breathes the air of honest-to-God daily experience of monastic life, and in a very complex type of community, comprising celibates, marrieds, singles, and children. The new monasticism, with its many ways of participating, provides access from wherever you are into an ancient contemplative path.Abbot Jerome Kodell, OSB Subiaco Abbey, Arkansas