This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection Today I dropped a glass on the kitchen floor. . . . On the day you died, my life shattered into countless shards, but now you are not here to help me sweep up the brokenness. —Missy Buchanan, Feeling Your […]

This week’s featured book: Feeling Your Way Through Grief by Missy Buchanan   Today’s Reflection My husband, Barry, was both my rock and my soft pillow in this earthly life. When he died, I was devastated. . . . [This book is] your invitation to grope alongside me in this darkness of grief. —Missy Buchanan,

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The movement of the heart is not unsuitably illustrated by the comparison of a mill wheel. . . . It can never stop its work so long as it is driven round by the action of the water. —John Cassian,

This week’s featured book: Writings of John Cassian by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection There is a great difference between those who put out the fire of sin within themselves by fear of hell or hope of future reward and those who . . . keep hold of the virtue of purity simply from

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