Be Still, and Know
On the psalm that commands stillness in the middle of real chaos, and whether the noise we have engineered for ourselves is a new kind of obstacle to hearing God.
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6 posts
Theology The Kid Who Came Back
A kid I hadn't seen in a year came back to church readier to listen, and it got me wondering whether noise is the real thing standing between us and God.
Theology The Theology of Small Rooms
On why so much of Scripture's weightiest business happens in cramped, borrowed, unglamorous rooms, and what that says about where God prefers to work.
Hiding in the Garden Again
On falling into old sin again, and the strange logic of shame that makes it hardest to pray exactly when prayer is most needed.
Theology Help My Unbelief
On whether doubt is the failure of faith or one of its working parts, and what a desperate father in Mark's gospel understood that we keep forgetting.
Theology The Practice of Attention
On Simone Weil's radical claim that attention is the substance of prayer, and what it means to attend to the world as a spiritual discipline.