What was formerly a rant at full gallop is now more of a meandering moan, although some sections still retain the acidulous punch of the first edition.
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Words Can Change Us – Can We Change Them?
Texts can change us. They change how we feel; they affect and enhance our spiritual lives. Inferior texts change us differently and perhaps less well. Can we alter texts so that their effect on us is, shall we say, more desirable? Or at least so that their effect on us is enhanced?
Read morePentecost Novena Prayers to the Holy Spirit
I invite you to join me in entering and living, in prayer, this rich tradition in these days before Pentecost.
Read moreO Clavis David: O Key of David
Rather than being frightened by this image of Christ as the holder of the keys, the one who opens and no one can close and who closes and no one can open, the image of Christ as Key of David instilled in me a far-reaching confidence.
Read moreBrother Roger of Taizé
What we didn’t know is that, even when our lips are shut, Christ prays in us.
Read moreA Sportive Spirituality?
A “sportive” spirituality is rooted in prayer. It is rooted in daily prayer. Prayer – individual or communal – is one of the ways that we “practice” our baptism (see Luther’s writing on baptism in the Large Catechism, The Book of Concord, page 461).
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