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 […]
Thomas A. Dorsey, Reformed Theologian?
First off, “HOORAY!” and “THANKS!” for helping the blog to pass 4000 page views today! And now to the actual post… Give a good listen to Thomas A. Dorsey’s “Precious Lord, Take My Hand” (sung here by the great Mahalia Jackson) Here’s someone who knows that making each step of faith and faithfulness requires a […]
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