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Who Am I?
In this moving poem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer seeks to know himself as God’s beloved in the midst of his imprisonment.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Featured October 4, 2024
(Original Jan 2025 )
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.”
Brother Lawrence
Featured October 1, 2024
(Original Jan 2025 )
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.
Trevor Hudson
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.
George MacDonald
Featured September 12, 2024
(Original Jan 1867 )
What Is Imagination?
In her book
Reclaiming Quiet
, Sarah Clarkson asks “what is imagination?” and uses an allegory from a George MacDonald fairy story to unpack the answer.
Sarah Clarkson
September 6, 2024
A Fire of Roses
Katelyn Dixon shares about the George MacDonald fairy tale that served as a “North Star” pointing her to the gospel during a time of spiritual darkness.
Katelyn J. Dixon
September 6, 2024
Why Medieval?
“We all read out of the context and history of the time in which we live,” writes Grace Hamman. But the writing and art of our Medieval Christian brothers and sisters can help us see beyond those bounds and consider Jesus’ question “Who do you say that I am?” with fresh insight.
Grace Hamman
Featured August 23, 2024
(Original Oct 2023 )
The Four Degrees of Love
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) “cuts through all our ego-strutting activity and calls us again to love God in purity of heart, in sincerity of soul, and in holiness of life.”
Bernard of Clairvaux
Featured August 22, 2024
(Original Jan 2025 )
Living Each Moment with a Sense of God’s Presence: Frank Laubach
An excerpt from the collection of letters Laubach wrote while living on the Philippine island of Mindanao. It reveals a man utterly dedicated to an “experiment of filling every minute full of the thought of God.”
Frank Laubach
Featured August 16, 2024
(Original Dec 1936 )
Christ Beside Me
St. Patrick’s Lorica (Latin for “breastplate”) is a prayer of consciously choosing to abide in the protective and empowering presence of the Trinity.
St. Patrick
Featured August 16, 2024
(Original Jan 2025 )
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