WebMD for the Soul
The Curator Magazine published my article on acedia today (link). An excerpt: Once, after feeling awful for a few days but not thinking it was the flu, I sat up in bed, my stomach churning, my…
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What Leah Teaches Us About God’s Gifts
[Leah] conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, “This time I will praise the Lord.” So she named him Judah. Then she stopped having children. -Genesis 29:35 It happened. It was unfortunate,…
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Check your Body, Check your Soul, Inflate Your Tires
The most menacing and difficult threat to assess in one’s spiritual life is the threat of diminishing returns for the same actions. It happens when the prayers come harder even though you keep your same…
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Fracking Your Soul: Community
This is a four part series on a community approach to spiritual growth. The four parts are Community, Participation, Discipleship and Worship. There is a lot of mystery hiding below the surfaces of the earth,…
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Fracking Your Soul: Participation
This is the second post in a four part series on spiritual growth. The first post was on Community, and the last two are on Discipleship and Worship. How does one then repair their soul…
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Litany on Discipleship
This litany is for use in a small group or corporate setting. Feel free to use this, as long as Everyday Liturgy is acknowledged. Responsive Reading John 15.8-11; Luke 14.27-32 ;Matthew 28.16-20 L: If you…
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Fracking Your Soul: Discipleship
Why do the children go participate in discipleship during Sunday School while the adults are in a worship service that often does nothing of the sort? The kids play games, move around, participate in the…
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Drinking Wine and Community
The Church and Postmodern Culture blog recently featured an article dealing with many of the themes I bring up on this blog concerning liturgy and community. In his piece “The Liturgical Turn: Public Display of Worship” Eric…
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Third Way Thursday: Beyond War and Peace
Good friend, scholar, and blogger David Opderbeck had several meaningful conversations with me about war and pacifism in which he shared with me the theory of just peacemaking. Just Peacemaking is a subversion of just war…
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The Peace Examen
Several weeks ago I was on a corporate retreat where the topic was peace. I have thought a lot about my views of peace as it relates to violence and society, to how I view…