One reason for writing this book is to give honor to Holy Scripture. I wish to defend the orthodox evangelical faith - from its friends as well as from its enemies. A biblicistic literalism that often borders on obscurantism can... Continue Reading →
Contemplation is a very simple thing, really. To advance in it what you need is not to complicate your techniques but to persevere in simplicity, a thing that most people find very, very hard. Put up with your boredom. Resist... Continue Reading →
It you attempt to act and do for others or for the world without deepening your own self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, you will not have anything to give others. You will communicate to them nothing but the... Continue Reading →
Learn Patrick's surprising journey to becoming a missionary to Ireland and how God used it to convert a nation.
Martin Laird tells how the practice of contemplation led one woman from being a victim of suffering to a witness of pain.
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, wrath is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the... Continue Reading →
In war a man can forgive the enemy who a little while ago was trying to kill him, and can share his bread with him. But in a political battle a man hates his opponent, and a son can kill... Continue Reading →
The Magpie 