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January 2020

January 24, 2020

Where Does Your Identity Come From?

Do you know that you are loved by God? That is where our identity...

January 14, 2020

Are You Carrying Shame and Guilt Because of Smartphone Overuse?

I first realized that smartphones may be a bigger problem than I suspected when I...

January 07, 2020

Would You Pray More Often If Your Phone Was Useless?

If I listed all of the places where I’ve checked my phone, I could keep...

April 2019

April 27, 2019

Facing the 3 Types of Distractions from Prayer

Guilt tends to show up at one time or another in our spiritual practices. When...

April 19, 2019

The Struggle to Pray with a Reactive Mind in a Social Media Society

Do you struggle to pray? Perhaps this question may help get to one of the...

April 11, 2019

Why No One Can Say: I’m Bad at Contemplative Prayer

For years I believed that I was bad at contemplative prayer. Heck, I just believed...

April 08, 2019

How to Make Room for the Wonder of God

Author Christine Sine is sharing a guest post today about her highly anticipated new book,...

March 2019

March 11, 2019

Which Kind of Anxious Christian Are You?

For years I described myself as an anxious Christian, especially when it came to prayer....

March 06, 2019

What Do You Lose When You Surrender to God?

What do I lose when I take the words of Jesus seriously and surrender to...

March 02, 2019

Finding Time to Pray vs. Time for Facebook

When I released Flee, Be Silent, Pray, a book that’s essentially about finding time to...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 3: It Takes Practice

One of the stranger aspects about working as a professional writer (who also writes about...

February 11, 2019

Prayer Trains Us to Be Present for God Within Us

Contemplative prayer can be one way that we are filled to the full measure of...

February 02, 2019

Should Our Spiritual Practices “Spark Joy“?

Is it time for Christians to tidy up our beliefs and spiritual practices? That is...

January 2019

January 25, 2019

Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 2: It’s Counterintuitive

The approach to contemplative prayer is largely counterintuitive for many American evangelicals. Contemplative prayer tells...

January 17, 2019

Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 1: Mission (Yes, Really)

If there’s any group of people who could benefit from the grounding awareness of God...

January 14, 2019

What Keeps Us from Praying? Part Five: Finding Time to Pray

Before we talk about finding time to pray, I have a brief story to share......

January 11, 2019

Can Your Phone Help or Hinder Prayer?

A little while ago, I wrote a blog post about the ways I modified my...

January 03, 2019

How Silence Can Help You Speak Up This Year

Silence has long been a cornerstone practice for Christian spirituality, ministry, and activism. This may...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

What Keeps Us from Praying? Part Four: Where to Begin with Prayer?

If you don’t know where to begin with prayer, it can become extremely frustrating and...

December 14, 2018

What Keeps Us from Praying, Part 3: Expectations for Prayer

What do you expect will happen if you pray? If you’ve set aside time for...

December 07, 2018

What Keeps Us from Praying? Part 2: We Believe We Are Too Sinful

Besides the fear that God is distant and unloving, a general sense of unworthiness or...

December 03, 2018

What Keeps Us from Praying? Part 1: “God Isn’t Loving”

The following post is part of an ongoing series that will examine the barriers that...

November 2018

November 27, 2018

5 Books to Guide You Through Spiritual Burnout

Passing through spiritual burnout or coming to the potential end of your faith can be...

November 19, 2018

How to Make Time for Gratitude: Try This App (No Really)

I tend to be suspicious of the ways smartphone apps promise quick and convenient fixes...

November 17, 2018

What Are Your Failures and Sins Trying to Tell You?

Moving from a shame and guilt-based spirituality to a silent, contemplative space has required a...

November 13, 2018

Gritty and Time for Prayer in the Attention Economy

How do brands and individuals make a splash in the attention economy of social media?...

November 09, 2018

A Contemplative Response to Political Mind Games

Since the 2016 election, I have experienced my fair share of despair and alarm over...

November 08, 2018

Why Soul Care Is Easy to Neglect

At a Christian writers conference this year, I had a few moments to speak...

November 03, 2018

What Would Thomas Merton Do in an Election Year?

I can’t tell you what exactly Trappist monk and spiritual author Thomas Merton would do...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Why You Can Be a Kinda Contemplative Christian

Thomas Merton entered a Cistercian monastery, learned how to pray, and soon alienated some of...

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