This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Whatever our minds have been thinking of before the hour of prayer is sure to occur to us while we are praying. . . . [So how we want to pray is how] we ought to prepare ourselves to be

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection As one who is crucified no longer has the power of moving or turning [their] limbs in any direction [they please], so we also ought to fix our wishes and desires—not according to what is pleasant and delightful to us

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Perfection cannot possibly be gained without these efforts. But by these only and without the grace of God no one can ever attain it. . . . God desires and looks for our perfection and salvation far more than we

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection When we are forsaken by God we cannot possibly recover our former state of purity and delight by any groaning and efforts of our own; [we learn] our previous gladness of heart resulted not from our own earnestness but from

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection And so when [purity in heart] is set before us, we shall always direct our actions and thoughts straight toward attainment of it. . . . For the mind is sure to rove about from hour to hour and minute

This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert   Today’s Reflection The Christian religion was, indeed, often a tool of the oppressors. The religion of Jesus, however, was the exact opposite. . . . Jesus’ religion was for the poor, the disinherited, and the oppressed. —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a Life with

This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert   Today’s Reflection While our daily prayer practices cannot change the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, praying in the face of an apocalypse has a long history in our faith. [Times of upheaval] are often fertile ground for spiritual transformation. —Daniel

This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert   Today’s Reflection When we begin to turn over large amounts of our resources to someone else, we encounter our fears. . . . Tithing is a prayer practice because it forces us into relationship with God. We must ask God for what

This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert   Today’s Reflection Just as we are able to reach out to God with our hearts and minds, we are able to reach out to God with and through our bodies. For it is through our bodies that we see and experience beauty,

This week’s featured book: Creating a Life with God by Daniel Wolpert   Today’s Reflection Just as God sees visions of what is to be created and then creates, so too we are designed to see visions and create in accordance with the power and presence of God in our lives. —Daniel Wolpert, Creating a