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Modern Media and Tech—Blessing or Curse?
“What we as a species now face in terms of access to entertainment, communication, and information is completely unprecedented in the whole of human existence.” In this foreword to
Everyday Sabbath
, Nathan Foster ponders the role of technology and media in our lives.
Nathan Foster
Featured July 18, 2024
(Original Aug 2021 )
Practicing the Presence of Christ
Trevor Hudson explains classical practices for growing our awareness of God’s presence “wherever we are and in whatever we are doing.”
Trevor Hudson
Featured July 18, 2024
(Original Nov 2010 )
A Holy Inactivity
Could
inactivity
, in the company of the Good Shepherd, be holy? Brother Lawrence takes us into the practice of the presence of God with this excerpt from his writings.
Brother Lawrence
July 11, 2024
Learning To Trust The Slow Work Of God
Carolyn Arends reminds us that spiritual formation is a slow process by design. “Let’s not mistake God’s patience for inactivity.”
Carolyn Arends
Featured July 11, 2024
(Original Sep 2020 )
Dallas Willard on Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle
“This book and this author,” Dallas Willard says in regard to Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, “immediately announced themselves as a unique presence of God in my life.”
Dallas Willard
Featured July 11, 2024
(Original Dec 2003 )
A People, Transforming
Mimi Dixon writes about the swelling influence of
Celebration of Discipline
: “Individuals from every race and nation and tongue and stratum of society were joining hearts and hands and minds and voices in a shared commitment to go deep in their life with God.”
Miriam Dixon
Featured June 28, 2024
(Original May 2024 )
Self-Denial Without Self-Hatred
“Most of us have been exposed to such a mutilated form of biblical submission that either we have embraced the deformity or we have rejected the Discipline altogether,” Foster writes. This
Celebration of Discipline
excerpt explains why true submission has nothing to do with self-hatred.
Richard J. Foster
Featured June 28, 2024
(Original Dec 1977 )
Making Companionship With God a Priority at All Costs
In this excerpt from
Soul Care in African American Practice,
Barbara Peacock calls out patterns of busyness that threaten our intimacy with God. She encourages us to “make companionship with God a priority” by setting aside times to soak in the presence of Jesus.
Barbara Peacock
Featured June 13, 2024
(Original May 2020 )
Meeting God in Fatigue
An excerpt from Henri Nouwen’s
Sabbatical Journey
reveals his frustration with feeling so tired and unproductive and finding God’s grace to “live fatigue as an experience that can deepen my soul.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Featured June 13, 2024
(Original Nov 2013 )
Rejoice, Y’all
Christianity isn’t a solo venture. Marva Dawn explains why “we need the whole Body of the people of God.”
Marva Dawn
Featured May 31, 2024
(Original Apr 1999 )
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