The New Church - Transformation

Is the Church going to die out in our lifetime? It is just as possible that the Church will be radically different but still alive in some form.

Take the Solovetsky Monastery for instance. It was founded in the 15th Century by two monks looking for some peace and quiet. It seemed like a good place, 650 miles north of Moscow in the shadow of the Arctic Circle. Their spirituality could be questioned since the monks also served as prison wardens for the czar’s enemies. Stalin took this one step further by turning Solovetsky into a gulag. Half of his enemies imprisoned here died in the 1920s and 30s: 40,000 in all.

In 1990 monks reclaimed the monastery.

(reported in the Jan./Feb. Atlantic.)



Peter