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Frank Laubach

Frank Laubach

Frank Laubach

Articles & Essays by Frank Laubach

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Book Excerpt

Going in Search of God's Vocabulary

Published January, 1956 • Featured February 2, 2023

The journals of Frank Laubach reveal his experiments with hearing God in ​“beauty and singing birds and cool breezes, in radiant Christlike faces, in sacrifices and in tears.”
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Book Excerpt from The Divine Conspiracy

Entering the Ultimate Reality

Featured May 7, 2020

The life for which you were made — a life intertwined with the Trinity and growing in closeness, communication, and surrender to God — is open to you. The offer is ​“not something to be ​‘accepted’ now and enjoyed later, but something to be entered now.”
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Book Excerpt from Letters by a Modern Mystic

Living Each Moment with a Sense of God’s Presence: Frank Laubach

Published December, 1936 • Featured January 17, 2019

A pioneer in global literacy and an acclaimed educator and administrator, Frank Laubach was above all (or maybe we should say ​“beneath all”) a man of prayer.
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Book Excerpt from Letters by a Modern Mystic

A Continuous Heart to Heart Conversation With God

Published September, 1931 • Featured May 1, 2018

How we see others affects how we pray for them. Frank Laubach shares his practice of using God as his glasses when interacting with others, seeing them as God sees them. To do this requires a continuous heart to heart conversation with God that holds others before him and prays God’s will for them.