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Organising the monastic community
The first monastic 'rule of life' appeared not that long after the original desert hermits. What do these first steps of formalisation show us?
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The Passio Project
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David Benjamin Blower
Can the practice of pilgrimage sow seeds of peace in the world?
Participants in a Peace Pilgrimage choose to walk, often for several days, to the DSEi Arms Fair — in protest, and reflection, on the arms trade.
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The Passio Project
The troubled days of St Jerome
Or, the reassuring complexity of the 'Patron Saint of Difficult Personalities'
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The Passio Project
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David Benjamin Blower

July 2025

Turning free competition into a joke
The undercurrent of hermits 'competing' to be the lowest and the least parodies the Roman world of power, prestige and privilege.
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The Passio Project
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David Benjamin Blower
Seeds of Wisdom
Community gardener and Uni chaplain Samuel Ewell shares what plants have to teach us about the economy of gifts.
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The Passio Project
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Samuel Ewell
On the absence of children
On the face of it, the most long-running anarchist commune in Western history had no investment in what it was building: the end was wired in.
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The Passio Project
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David Benjamin Blower
Bodies, Bellies and Bibles
Artist and practical theologian Vanessa Chamberlin describes the work of putting our physical selves in the stories of scripture.
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The Passio Project
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Vanessa Chamberlin

June 2025

May 2025

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