Prayers for Times of Calamity
When we have no words, short written prayers can help us bring our heartache to God. From David Taylor’s Prayers for the Pilgrimage: A Book of Collects for All of Life we share “Against Raging Hurricane Storms” and other prayers for times of calamity, hurt, and exhaustion.
Featured October 4, 2024 (Original Jun 2024 )
Who Am I?
In this moving poem, Dietrich Bonhoeffer seeks to know himself as God’s beloved in the midst of his imprisonment.
Featured October 4, 2024 (Original Oct 2024 )
Building a Bridge between Protestants and Catholics
Trevor Hudson writes about how the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius provide an opportunity for Catholics and Protestants of all stripes to find “common ground” by listening to each other’s experiences of prayer.
Featured September 27, 2024 (Original Sep 2022 )
In Neighbor Love
In this unspoken sermon, George MacDonald calls us “out of the dungeon of self” and into the kind of neighbor-love that Jesus illustrated in the Good Samaritan story.
Featured September 12, 2024 (Original Jan 1867 )
Why Medieval?
“We all read out of the context and history of the time in which we live,” writes Grace Hamman. But the writing and art of our Medieval Christian brothers and sisters can help us see beyond those bounds and consider Jesus’ question “Who do you say that I am?” with fresh insight.
Featured August 23, 2024 (Original Oct 2023 )
Living Each Moment with a Sense of God’s Presence: Frank Laubach
An excerpt from the collection of letters Laubach wrote while living on the Philippine island of Mindanao. It reveals a man utterly dedicated to an “experiment of filling every minute full of the thought of God.”
Featured August 16, 2024 (Original Dec 1936 )