The New Friars

The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor

By Scott A. Bessenecker

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: Likewise
Length: 199 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: September 2006

ISBN-10: 0-8308-3601-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-3601-7
IVP Order Code: 3601

Related Subjects

Mission
New Church Movements (emergent, monastic, missional)

Finalist, Fourth Annual Outreach Resource of the Year (2006)

Vows—exclusive promises or commitments—are almost unheard of these days. They're considered a quaint relic of times past when open options were not such highly regarded virtues. But many people in this commitment-averse culture are begging for someone to set the bar higher, to call them to higher levels of devotion.

Across the ages God has consistently attracted a few in every crowd who would make and keep vows, and called them to stick out, act out and speak out.

In The New Friars Scott Bessenecker profiles young Christians who have voluntarily removed themselves from the status quo in order to seek justice and mercy with the poorest of the world's poor. These new friars are carrying on the work of the monastic tradition, the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi, St. Patrick and St. Brigid, the Jesuits and Nestorians and Moravians.

The New Friars will show you that with God all things—even uncommon acts of courageous faith—are possible.

Related Information & Resources

Read the article, "Opening our eyes: social justice in film" on studentsoul.org.

Read the article, "Rwanda, Darfur and movie night"on studentsoul.org.

Listen to Bessenecker reading from The New Friars.

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