The Lindisfarne Community is an independent, ecumenical religious community in the Anglo-Celtic tradition. We are committed to the "new (or secular) monasticism."  A friend of the community described us as "A religious order with apostolic succession." 

We are part of a grass-roots movement, sometimes called "emerging church" exploring spirituality for the twenty-first century, including re-envisioning priesthood. We are deeply rooted in historical Christianity, yet are open to insights from other traditions. Our community prayer is "to be as Christ to those we meet, to find Christ within them."

Our mother house, the home of our abbess and abbot, is in Ithaca, NY. We also have several daughter houses: 

• St. Cuthbert's Chapel and Priory

Madison, WI

• Wild Goose Hermitage

New London, NH

• Scripture House

Keene, NH 

• Ninth Wave Hermitage

Atlanta, GA

• The Waystead Hermitage

Salt Lake City, UT

• Sophia's Grove

Spring Branch, TX.

• St. Eadfrith's Hermitage and Oratory

Long Island, NY

We have professed members in the USA, the UK, and Indonesia.

Our spirituality is a balanced life of prayer, study, service and rest . . . a new form of monasticism. We are relational, egalitarian, contemplative, sacramental and inclusive. 

We have embraced emphases from, among others, the Celtic Christian communities of the fourth to ninth centuries in Northern Britain and Ireland; the desert fathers and mothers and the early monastic movement; the Christian mystics; the radicals of the sixteenth century; the charismatic, Christian feminist and home church movements of the twentieth century. Community members have received wisdom from Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, Hindu, Jewish, Pagan, and secular traditions, in the belief that "all truth is God's truth."