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July 2024

July 09, 2024

Come On, God, This Isn’t Working

Increasing complexity seems to be a part of aging. Certain things might become simpler, especially...

December 2023

December 26, 2023

The Lord’s Prayer: Our Father

Ludolph now moves into the specific petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. The “address” causes him...

August 2023

August 17, 2023

What Is the Prayer of Salvation?

In his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount, my medieval friend, Ludolph of Saxony,...

December 2019

December 06, 2019

Advent Darkness: It’s Not the New Normal

These are dark days, darker for some than for others. Dark, for some, in grievous...

May 2019

May 07, 2019

Practicing the Presence in Gethsemane

All the anguished cries for mercy, all the urgent messages to come quickly, all the...

February 2017

February 17, 2017

Prayers: Thomas Aquinas

"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to...

February 16, 2017

Prayers: Sadhu Sundar Singh

"O Lord God, who are all in all to me, Life of my life...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

The Overshadowing God: Life in the Spirit

To be filled, we must become empty. People talk about a “spiritual vacuum” in...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

The Green Isle Community (Friends of God 5)

The Friends of God were committed to community. While their associations with each other were...

August 15, 2014

Honesty or Heroism? (Friends of God 4)

When we think of the Middle Ages, and we try to imagine the ordeals people...

August 10, 2014

The Atmosphere of God (Friends of God 3)

Imagine running a large organization—a multinational organization—with thousands of employees, complicated networks of incomes and...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

A Single Great Prayer

He prays unceasingly who combines prayer with necessary duties and duties with prayer. Only in...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Finding the Way, and Loving the Journey

(A Book Review) As someone who has lived in a one-mile radius for thirty years,...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Becoming Neo-Pascalian: Praying Like Elijah

“What a long way it is between knowing God and loving him!” (f. 377) Ultimately,...

June 17, 2013

Becoming Neo-Pascalian: Setting Our Hearts

I’ve been reading my way through the Old Testament again and have reached the sad,...

June 10, 2013

Becoming Neo-Pascalian: Diminishing Your Passions or Increasing Your Hunger

In our last Neo-Pascalian conversation, I indicated that fragment 418 held yet another clue to...

February 2013

February 12, 2013

Pascal, Ash Wednesday, and the Hidden God

In the Anglican Ash Wednesday ritual, we pray for the grace of true repentance. Repentance...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

Tales from My Father: On Prayer and Two Old Women, One with Blue Hair

As pastor’s kids, we enjoyed a certain amount of both notoriety and adulation, depending on...

May 2012

May 03, 2012

Trinitarian Spirituality, 6: Two Starting Principles

When Anatolios tells us that there are two fundamental principles that must undergird our explorations...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

You’ve Got Mail: Forward or Perish

There isn’t much in scripture that seems to indicate Our Lord will be using my...

July 20, 2011

Waving the White Flag

After a long while in the spiritual life, most of us come to the point...