"I go on a retreat at every opportunity," said Presbyterian Ted Aller of Los Angeles last week, "and when I come home, my wife says I'm fit to live with, for a few months." Design Engineer Aller represents a powerful ground swell in U.S. Protestantism—the practice of making religious retreats.
To other generations of Protestants the idea might have smacked of popery or unhealthy mysticism. The withdrawal of small groups for meditation, prayer and spiritual study used to be a distinctive practice of other religions, notably Roman Catholicism and Buddhism. Today, Protestant retreat...
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