where best do we find desert spirituality represented?

a question from someone newly introduced to the spiritual practices of the desert fathers and mothers. 

without stirring much controversary, in contemporary times where best do we find desert spirituality represented? 
In the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. Unfortunately you have to be a drunk to qualify for membership.

If you look at their literature, they promote a daily discipline of living in obedience to God's will in all things. Daily repentence. Constant vigilence against the seven deadly sins. Constant guarding of the intellect against temptation -- confession of thoughts that interfere with doing God's will. Connecting all of the aspects of the person -- physical, mental, spiritual -- in obedience to God's will. I'm not sure where else you will find that, at least institutionally, except in a few monasteries.