Following Jesus in an Age of Distraction
In an age of near infinite distractions, we must learn — again, and again — to look to him in whom all things hold together.
Reading Contemplatively
While the decline of contemplative reading is a problem for the professor, it’s a threat to the Christian, especially those of us operating within a sacramental tradition.
Gregory the Great on Compassion and Contemplation
What is the relationship between pastoral ministry and the Christian vocation of contemplation?
Spiritual renewal, Scripture, and the Oxford Movement: The vision of God
Spiritual exegesis is part and parcel of the Oxford Movement's efforts to help the English church recover her capacity to see and to enjoy the kind of vision of God, which is compellingly attractive, which is the beginning and end of Christian life.
Putting the Incarnation back in ‘incarnational’
The Incarnation is not a principle. It is not just a reminder that God works and speaks through people. It is not primarily a model for ministry.
A catechism of Nature (5): Autumn
I am an avid hunter and fisherman, but it strikes me that these activities are really more occasions for something else: for looking at the natural world and trying to understand it and, by trying to understand it.
John and Peter, patterns of holy life
Jesus’ words in the Gospel today reveal how Peter and John would die, but also how the disciples provided patterns for two different states of life: the active and contemplative.
Christian worship is boring
The Holy Eucharist is supposed to be boring. So claims the Catholic theologian James Alison. He says, “When people tell me that they find Mass boring, I want to say to them: it's supposed to be boring, or at ... Read More...