Book Review: The Seven Storey Mountain
I gotta say – I miss fiction. It feels like I’ve been immersed in monks and heretics and religious history for ages, and my brain is weary. There is...
Tag: Lent
Update on Lenten reading
For Lent I give up fiction in exchange for theological books – works that make me question and wrestle with matters of faith and scripture. This may not s...
Lent Reading 2016
A few years ago, when we joined a Presbyterian church, we began acknowledging the liturgical calendar. Beforehand, we had Christmas, Easter, and, depending on t...
Dissecting Contemplative Prayer
Having finished Flannery O’Connor’s Prayer Journal, I’ve moved on to studying contemplative prayer during this season of Lent. Not once have I...
Lent Reading 2015
A few years ago I started observing Lent, but instead of giving up meat or coffee or carrots (which Jackson said he was giving up for Lent), I decided instead t...
Full Body Experience
This is how Sara Miles, author of City of God, describes Ash Wednesday. This service… reminded me not to over-spiritualize the problem of mortality. Ash ...