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January 2020
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 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...
March 2019
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...
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...
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...
December 2018
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 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 08, 2018
Why Soul Care Is Easy to Neglect
At a Christian writers conference this year, I had a few moments to speak...
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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