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Review: A Goodness I Cannot Explain

January 8, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 22 Comments

A Goodness I Cannot Explain

Imagine: You start having odd symptoms. Your doctor does a scan of your head. There is a tumor. Two treatments are possible: each has very serious risks. How do you decide? That is the situation Rev. Catherine Stewart faced a few years back. The journey that follows is the subject of her new book, A Goodness […]

Filed Under: books, Reviews Tagged With: A Goodness I Cannot Explain, Catherine Stewart, Finding the Will of God, Lectio divina, Medical Crisis

Interview with Chris Keating on the St. Louis Post-Dispach Blog

May 1, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

This week Chris Keating interviewed me on his blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispach website! He asked some great questions on the background and potential impact of my new book, Love Your Bible: Finding Your Way to the Presence of God with a 12th Century Monk. Here’s how it starts. Hope you’ll click through for the […]

Filed Under: Bible, Guest Posts, Prayer Tagged With: guest post, Interview, Lectio divina, Spiritual disciplines

My New Book! “Love Your Bible” is HERE!

March 4, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

classic lectio divina

I am THRILLED to announce that my new book, Love Your Bible: Finding Your Way to the Presence of God with a 12th Century Monk is now available! Love Your Bible introduces 21st century readers to classic lectio divina–an approach to Scripture that has shaped the lives of disciples for well over a thousand years. Love Your […]

Filed Under: Bible, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: Book Launch, Free eBook, Lectio divina

Join My Mini-Book-Launch Team!

January 8, 2015 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Get free stuff… Have some fun… Learn with me about the publishing process… And most importantly, Help my new book help God’s people! I’ve been hinting about my new book for a while now. Very soon it is going to launch! I am really excited about this. The book is Love Your Bible: Finding Your Way to the Presence […]

Filed Under: Bible Tagged With: Book Launch, Book Launch Team, Lectio divina, Love Your Bible

Finding a Life-Giving Approach to the Bible (part 7, conclusion): Process & Goal

September 4, 2014 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

And so we come to the end of the classic book on lectio divina by Guigo II (d. 1188), The Ladder of Monks. The idea of a ladder is key to understanding his approach to the Bible — despite all the food metaphors I’ve noted in these posts. He might have done better still with a spiral […]

Filed Under: Bible, Prayer, Theology Tagged With: Guigo II, Ladder of Monks, Lectio divina

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