Christianity, Scholarship, Service
As Ecclesiastes reminds us, there is a time to speak and a time to be silent, and too many of us aren't silent nearly often enough - or, when we are, we experience that silence as one of deprivation, restraint, and biting-back. Loving silence is different. [Click title to read more.]
A review of the Pray As You Go app. [Click title to read more.]
Nothing is too small for a God who cares deeply about details. [Click title to read more.]
Picking out patterns in your spiritual life is a great way to figure out what needs work, what's already working, and how God is shaping your life. [Click title to read more.]
A Christmas prayer as we settle into the holidays. [Click title to read more.]
The truth is that the phrase "thoughts and prayers," or the offhanded promise "I'm praying for you," can be empty. It can be performative. It can be meaningless. And before believers utter it - whether in text, on Twitter, in person, or anywhere else - we'd do well to ask ourselves a few questions and to think about what it is we're really saying. [Click title to read more.]
Somehow, over the years, I started self-censoring my prayers. If you're in a prayer rut, you might be doing the same thing. [Click title to read more.]
