This week’s featured book: Time Away by Paul H. Lang, Ben Campbell Johnson   Today’s Reflection Retreat is not a permanent withdrawal from conflicts and the struggles of life; it is not playing the coward with your problems. Retreat is a temporary withdrawal to be renewed, to regroup, and find the strength that you need […]

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection No Cristain escapes the taste of wilderness on the way to the Promised Land; the wilderness confronts this generation in a very harsh and concrete form. . . . [This] helps us, in a disagreeable way, to realize our entire

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection God made us to use us, and use us in the most profitable way: for God’s purpose, not ours. To live a spiritual life means subordinating all other interests to that single fact. —Evelyn Underhill, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection It has been said that a ceaseless death to self is asked of all light-bearing souls, and this is a hundred times more true of healing souls. We must ignore our pains and preferences, our own longing for sympathy and

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Faithfulness is consecration in overalls. It is the steady acceptance and performance of the common duty and immediate task without reference to personal preferences—becuase it is there to be done and so is a manifestation of the Will of God.

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Indeed, the very object of prayer is to increase and maintain Charity, the loving friendship of the soul with God. All other aspects of the inner life are subsidiary to this and only of value insofar as they contribute to

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Adoration implies: The upward and outward look of humble and joyful admiration. Awestruck delight in the splendor and beauty of God, the action of God and Being of God, in and for God’s self alone. —Evelyn Underhill, edited by Keith

This week’s featured book: Writings of Evelyn Underhill by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection If God is All and God’s Word to us is All, that must mean that God is the reality and controlling factor of every situation, religious or secular. . . . Therefore our favorite distinction between the spiritual life and

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Scripture is iconographic. One of the interesting features of some icons is that the farther you look into the picture, the larger things become rather than smaller. . . . It totally reverses our normal artistic perspective in which

This week’s featured book: Shaped by the Word by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.   Today’s Reflection Reading for formation avoids quantifying the amount of reading in any sort of way. . . . So what if it takes you a year, two years, five years to get through the book? That is not the point.