Here's the outline of the talk I'm giving this Friday, titled "Monkey business" (haha). Thanks to those who have already let me know they're coming (Steve, Cobus, Cori, Luc, Bryan, Laura, Chris, Jody, Amanda, Kellie) - I'm hoping to meet a few others who are on the invite list (Dion?). 6:30am, Friday, Seattle Coffee Shop, Brooklyn Mall, Pretoria.
 
 
In the early days of Christian history a small number of men and women fled the corruption of the church to seek God in silence and simplicity in the desert. This was the start of monastic life - a way of seeking and serving God communally which has endured for over 1500 years.

More recently some have suspected that monastic life solves some of the main problems of Western existence: individualism, materialism and consumerism. As a result enough new communities have been formed that they go under the term "new monasticism."

Dispelling some common misunderstandings, Roger Saner will examine why more and more Protestants are learning from and adapting monastic life.

In spite of what his friends say about him, Roger is not a monk - although he lives in a new monastic community in Pretoria North. He is helping Thorsten design a new TGIF website and is moving into the field of interactive visual art. He blogs at www.futurechurch.co.za and boereworscurtain.blogspot.com