Tag: quote
To think about, amidst the discussion of solitude and silence here lately
April 9th, 2009, No Comments
“If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money [...]
Brennan Manning on Busyness
March 25th, 2009, No Comments
“I think maybe the most demonic force that is afflicting the church is busyness” – Brennan Manning
Why a Way of Life?
December 28th, 2008, No Comments
Godly discipline is different to the rules and regulations of bureaucratic organizations. The answer to legalism is not a vacuum, but clarity about our priorities. To live authentically means that I choose my lifestyle, I do not succumb to the lifestyle others foist upon me. It means that I use my time, money and talents [...]
Letter to a Young Activist
December 14th, 2008, 1 Comment
Today, I was thinking about the cynicism which so easily overtakes me and which my wife busts my chops for. So I was praying a bit, then looking for a good written prayer about cynicism and doing a bit of wandering to see what I could find.
I started thinking that Thomas Merton might have a [...]
External and Internal, thought from Merton
December 12th, 2008, No Comments
What was delivered to Moses on tablets of stone, as the fruit of lightning and thunder, is now more thoroughly born in our souls as quietly as the breath of our own being.
“Dialogues with Silence: Prayers & Drawings” (Thomas Merton)
On Thomas Merton on the 40th anniversary of his death
December 10th, 2008, No Comments
Entry quoted in whole from inward/outward, an expression of Church of the Saviour in DC.
By Joan Chittister
December 10 is the 40th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death. There is a story that may best explain the influence and the place of Thomas Merton in contemporary society and spiritual development.
Once upon a time some disciples begged their [...]
Why is New Monasticism on the Rise?
November 20th, 2008, 8 Comments
Folks often ask me why I, a failed missional church planter who lives in a single family home in the exurbs with a low likelihood of moving into multifamily housing any time soon, is so profoundly struck by monasticism, both old and new. I usually can’t answer the question in any other way than by [...]
Differences in Eastern and Western spirituality
October 5th, 2008, No Comments
After slogging through two books I’m happy to not have to read again, I just started a good history of the byzantines. It seems balanced and insightful, at least in the first part of the book. It’s very interesting to get insight into a stream of the Christian faith that I really have no grid [...]
Prayer is (Rohr)
September 12th, 2008, No Comments
I love this, via Mike Todd at Waving or Drowning:
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
(Richard Rohr, The Great Themes of Scripture)
For my friends Jen, Rachelle, Eliacin and you
June 30th, 2008, 3 Comments
Funny how sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees, and those who are forerunners, at the edge, pushing the envelope – sometimes it’s hard to know what their contribution really is (besides pissing people off and raising a ruckus, which is only sometimes as fun as it looks :-)).
From “The New Conspirators: [...]
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