My new blogospheric friend Tracy Dereszysnski-Dow very generously invited me to do a guest post on her blog “Walk.Build.Proclaim”. I wrote on praying the Psalms as modeled by John Calvin. Here’s how it starts: The medieval passion hymn “O Sacred Head” asks Jesus a great question: “What language shall I borrow to thank thee, dearest […]
Really?
This was in my in-box just now from the mother house of the Benedictine order. Maybe all that blogging about Benedict’s Rule paid off… Frankly it is a little surreal: I’m being followed by a 1500 year old monastery? If they are willing to read a Presbyterian seminary professor blogging about their remarkable founder they […]
Feast Day of St. Benedict of Nursia
I was about to set off to university. My friends and I headed north for a week of camp sponsored by Young Life — it was at the extraordinary Malibu Club on Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia. They called the camp “College Prep” and the message was clear: We’d been Christians in high school, […]
Whose Kingdom? Whose Power? Whose Glory?
Martin Luther wrote on the Lord’s Prayer. A lot — it was his favorite guide to a richer prayer life, as I recently wrote in a guest post on Anita Mathias’ blog, and as I spent a chapter exploring in my book, Kneeling with Giants. But there is one line of the prayer he never […]
Guest Post on Anita Mathias’ “Dreaming Beneath the Spires”
I was thrilled when award-winning essayist Anita Mathias asked me to do a guest post. I wrote on Martin Luther’s approach to prayer, and the post starts out like this: Martin Luther, the catalyst of the Protestant Reformation, needed a shave. And his barber, like the one I had when I had hair, liked to […]
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