May 12, 2005

The Monastery: Reality TV Meets God

(Filed under: Reality TV)

A new reality TV show is turning to God. The Monastery is a BBC show where five men spend 40 days and 40 nights living in a Catholic monastery. The men must abide by the rules of monastic life in an effort to show whether or not St. Benedict's 1,500-year-old rules still have relevance.

The experiment apparently worked, and all five of the men appear to be leaving the show closer to a God who most of them didn't know coming in. One, a Cambridge student studying Buddhism, is reportedly now looking into becoming an Anglican priest.

Another became reunited with the faith he rejected as a child.

According to U.K.'s 'The Telegraph', in one scene, Tony Burke, the 29-year old pornography producer speaks emotionally into a video diary saying, "I didn't want this to happen... when I woke this morning, I didn't believe in this, but as I speak to you now, I do."

(link via Reality Blogs)

Posted by kevin at May 12, 2005 12:31 PM

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