Become an Urban Monk

Review our commitments and express your solidarity

Essential Commitments of Urban Monks

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul

and with all your strength and with all your mind;” (Luke 10.27a)

“Love your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10.27b)

“Learn to do right; seek justice” (Isaiah 1.17)

Essential Actions involve continuously using spiritual principles and practices that:

nurture an intimate, personal, and private relationship with God.
cultivate a public relationship with God and others through acts of charity.
mature a private and public relationship with God by advancing solutions to help solve social issues and injustices.

I am willing to collectively explore with other Urban Monks spiritual principles and practices that 1) nurture a private and intimate relationship with God; 2) cultivate a public relationship with God and others through acts of charity; and 3) support solutions to help solve social issues and injustices.

I may post appropriate articles and books, white papers, webinars, seminars, workshops, conferences, art, blogs, movies, photos, music, and social media or other resources that would help Urban Monks further develop their integrated Rules of Life on the Society of Urban Monks web site according to Society guidelines.

I may post 1) an appropriate spiritual principle that I am integrating into my efforts to help solve a social struggle with others; 2) an appropriate spiritual practice that I am integrating into my efforts to help solve a social struggle with others; or 3) a vignette involving

- a person, group of persons, a meeting, workshop, conference, art, movie, or television show that helped shape a spiritual principle or practice that you integrated into your efforts to help solve social problems with others;
- a spiritual mystic or social reformer's spiritual principle(s) or practice(s) whose efforts to help solve a seemingly intractable social struggle(s) were inspirational; or
- an ancient or contemporary spiritual principle or practice that you are using to help solve a contemporary social prejudice with others.