Discovering Contemplation
In this classic piece, Bill Vaswig brings contemplation down to earth. It is, as Thomas Aquinas puts it, a simple, unimpeded, penetrating gaze at the truth.
Morning Prayers
There is no better way to learn about prayer than by praying, and the beautifully crafted prayers of John Baillie are a wonderful springboard into prayer.
Why Do We Need Retreat?
In this excerpt from her introduction to Wilderness Time, Emilie Griffin challenges our resistance to spending intentional time with God and argues for the indispensability of retreat in our spiritual lives.
The True You
God welcomes you “as you are,” but he also has plans to restore you to the fullness of your humanity.
On Correcting Others
How do we lovingly correct without crushing others? Here is Dallas Willard’s gentle approach in The Divine Conspiracy.
Memoirs of Jesus Christ
Dorothy Sayers imagines a literary review of John’s gospel in this essay that challenges the “taint of unreality” that can overshadow our reading of the Bible.
A Brief Overview of the With-God Life
From the Life with God Bible, this brief overview of biblical history helps us grasp how the divine drama took concrete forms in each age as people encountered God.
Artful Discipleship
Carolyn Arends shares with us some of the ways that the arts can play an important role in our spiritual formation. How can actively and intentionally engaging with the many disciplines of the creative world discipline us to cleave ever closer to our Creator?
Attention Grows into Love
Sally Kendrick writes about the process of creating prints as a way to train her eye on the unusual and startling displays of beauty and to respond to the God who made them.
Beauty Rituals
The rhythms of our world can press us to pay attention to what is wrong and ugly and evil, but “beauty rituals” are ways to resist that formation and to set our sights on God’s glory and goodness.