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Lent: Taking Stock with Evagrius Ponticus

February 26, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Lent is a season for self-examination. It is not mainly about feeling guilty. It is more like a chance to check the GPS (that might be “God Positioning System” if you like acronyms) and figure out exactly where you have come and where you still have to go. We often describe this life as a spiritual journey, […]

Filed Under: Church Year, Faith, Monasticism, Theology Tagged With: Desert Fathers, Evagrius of Pontus, Evagrius Ponticus, Lent, Self-examination

Saint Scholastica: Role Model for Holy Assertiveness

February 10, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Christians celebrate the memory of St. Scholastica today. She’s remembered primarily for the moment captured in this painting from the monastery at Subiaco. She was the sister of St. Benedict (the “Father of Western Monasticism”). Both died a bit after 540. He was a monk. She was a nun. Rules prevented them from getting out much. They could meet […]

Filed Under: Monasticism, Prayer, Saints Tagged With: St. Benedict of Nursia, St. Scholastica

Deep Church Rising: A Book Review

January 28, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

The twenty-first century churches have a problem. Maybe more than one. We also have more than a few people providing analyses and solutions. Deep Church Rising: The Third Schism and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy by Andrew G. Walker and Robin A. Parry (Cascade Books, 2014; $22.00) is a helpful corrective to the culture-bound, superficial diagnoses and prescriptions that get […]

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Best of 2014

January 26, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Recently while I’ve barely posted at all, a bunch of new people have subscribed to my blog. Thank you! Partly to give new readers a window into what I’ve been doing here, and partly as a way to think about my own blogging, here are my ten most-read posts of 2014. They fall into four categories: Answers to timeLY […]

Filed Under: Church Year, Saints, Theology, Vocabulary Tagged With: best of 2014, Most viewed posts

Join Me for My First Webinar! “A Prayer Life that Gives Life”

January 12, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Thanks to the good folks at the Presbyterian Outlook I’ll be doing my first webinar on February 17!  The title is “A Prayer Life that Gives Life: Renewing Faith and Ministry in Lent.” (Get the details and sign up here.) Prayer is CRUCIAL Lent is a time to renew our connection to God. Prayer is […]

Filed Under: Church Year, Prayer Tagged With: Kneeling with Giants, Lent, Lenten disciplines, Prayer, Webinar

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