Purity of heart means that every desire is for the same thing: God. Does this imply that other loves are wrong, or other goods illusory? No. The Christian view has never been a traditionally stoic one; we are never meant...
From Laurie Brock's Horses Speak of God: How Horses Can Teach Us To Listen and Be Transformed. Getting out of our heads. These creatures teach me to feel life and faith in my body and in my being, not to...
Kathy Harris is an author by way of a Divine Detour into the Nashville entertainment industry. She has contributed to several inspirational non-fiction books. Her debut novel, The Road to Mercy, was released in September 2012. Guitarist and music critic...
Need summer book recommendations? Here are our suggestions. 1 - Flunking Sainthood by Jana Reiss As Lauren Winner described, this book is... “surprising and freeing; it is fun and funny; and it is full of wisdom. It is, in fact,...
Jesus loved. Those associated with him are also to love. The first thing I learned about defining what it means to call God “love,” as one of Jesus’ first followers, John, did, is that love defies definition. The second was...
The liturgical season of Ordinary Time runs for roughly twenty-nine weeks, from Pentecost Sunday in the spring until the first Sunday of Advent in late fall. It’s the longest season of the church year, with few significant events along the...
From the Introduction to The Jesus Prayer by Frederica Mathewes-Green. It was about 2:30 in the morning when I got out of bed last night to pray. I have been doing this since I was pregnant with my first baby, decades...
From the Foreword of Holy Thirst: Essentials of Carmelite Spirituality I can still see the light of the moon reflected on the snowcovered ground outside. It was a quiet winter evening in 1985 when my mother gathered us together— she, my dad, and I—and...
Excerpted from Paul Marshall's Barefoot Revolution: Biblical Spirituality for Finding God. The greatest blessing of coming to God is to truly encounter him. Think about what happens when you open your heart to someone else. If their heart is also open...
