Cowboy Bethlehem
Read about the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey—a monastery nestled in the Oklahoma countryside—and their daily routines, the lay community growing on the farms and ranches around the abbey, and the lives and backgrounds of the monastery's leadership.
Cowboy Bethlehem
This is the remarkable story of Benedictine monks that arrived in Oklahoma from France in 1999. For a number of them, this story began in Lawrence, Kansas in the 1970s through a humanities program at the University of Kansas. This program, known as the Integrated Humanities Program or Pearson Program—because they met in Pearson Hall—changed the lives of hundreds of students, with some entering an ancient abbey in France. This is their story. Learn how Clear Creek is impacting a growing counterculture with an emphasis on Christ, family and community.