Loving Those We Don’t Like
In an excerpt from her autobiography, Thérèse of Lisieux tells about the small acts of kindness that helped her learn to get along with a particularly annoying nun in her fellowship. Little but valiant steps toward self-mastery and love.
Featured October 25, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
Prayers for Times of Calamity
When we have no words, short written prayers can help us bring our heartache to God. From David Taylor’s Prayers for the Pilgrimage: A Book of Collects for All of Life we share “Against Raging Hurricane Storms” and other prayers for times of calamity, hurt, and exhaustion.
Featured October 4, 2024 (Original Jun 2024 )
Who Am I?
In this moving poem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer seeks to know himself as God’s beloved in the midst of his imprisonment.
Featured October 4, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
Wide Awake to God’s Presence
Brother Lawrence’s approach to life was uncomplicated yet profound: “I have walked before God in simple faith, with humility and with love, and I apply myself diligently to do nothing and think nothing which might displease him.”
Featured October 1, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
Building a Bridge between Protestants and Catholics
Trevor Hudson writes about how the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius provide an opportunity for Catholics and Protestants of all stripes to find “common ground” by listening to each other’s experiences of prayer.
Featured September 27, 2024 (Original Sep 2022 )
In Neighbor Love
In this unspoken sermon, George MacDonald calls us “out of the dungeon of self” and into the kind of neighbor-love that Jesus illustrated in the Good Samaritan story.
Featured September 12, 2024 (Original Jan 1867 )
