Preparing for the prayer retreat I facilitated last month meant I got to read a lot of great books, including Jon M. Sweeney’s Praying with Our Hands: 21 Practices of Embodied Prayers from the World’s Spiritual Traditions. The images of prayer–with our hands, in dance, at altars–are stunning. The text is thought provoking. Here’s an… Continue reading On the Nightstand: October
Category: Spirituality
Being Christ in Our Lives: Bonnie Rose Hudson
My friend Bonnie Rose Hudson inspires me because she trusts God so completely. When she was still in her 20s, she went to her first writers’ conference–alone, without knowing anyone in attendance. She knew she was being called to write, specifically for young adults. In just the past two years, Bonnie Rose has gone from… Continue reading Being Christ in Our Lives: Bonnie Rose Hudson
Filling in the Backstory
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The Gospels move along at a pretty fast clip, focusing on Jesus’s ministry with only the occasional reference to what the apostles might have been thinking or doing when they… Continue reading Filling in the Backstory
“How Can I Renounce Him?”
Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. The nineteenth century was a dangerous time to be a Catholic in Korea. It’s estimated that at least eight thousand of the faithful were killed