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(From Abbey of the Arts): Invitation to Photography: Community
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Continue reading →: (From Abbey of the Arts): Invitation to Photography: CommunityChristine Valters Painter over at Abbey of the Arts – which I dearly love – has an invitation to a monthly photography theme. Abbey of the Arts hosts a wide variety of practices in spirituality, including Eyes of the Heart: Photography as Contemplative Practice. I will take this e-course soon…
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Continue reading →: What is Prayer?
As I’m teaching a course on Prayer this fall and intentionally seeking to expand my students’ understanding of prayer, I’m also finding it difficult to come to a solid definition of the concept myself. In our first class gathering, I showed our students these descriptions from well-known voices through history:…
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Continue reading →: Prayer and Formation in the form of a novel?
Edit: I want to expand two pieces of this brief post – I want to focus not just on prayer but on formation in Christian spirituality; and let’s expand to modern literature, not just novels. Which works of literary fiction have you read that speak deeply to you about formation…
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My Notes and Highlights from Abba, Give Me A Word: The Path of Spiritual Direction by L. Roger Owens
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Continue reading →: My Notes and Highlights from Abba, Give Me A Word: The Path of Spiritual Direction by L. Roger OwensHere are my notes and highlights from the Kindle edition of Abba, Give Me A Word: The Path of Spiritual Direction by L. Roger Owens. This is a unique look at spiritual direction, because it focuses on being the directee, not a director. Abba, Give Me A Word: The Path…
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My Notes and Highlights from Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening by Vigen Guroian
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Continue reading →: My Notes and Highlights from Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening by Vigen GuroianHere are my notes and highlights from the Kindle edition of Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening by Vigen Guroian Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardeningby Vigen Guroian You have 20 highlighted passages You have 2 notes Last annotated on October 15, 2012 Yet only as I wrote about this experience did…
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My Highlights and Notes from Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do
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Continue reading →: My Highlights and Notes from Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers DoI dearly loved this book. So much so that after finishing the Kindle version, I bought a paper copy because it’s one of those books that needs to be highlighted, written in, tagged with sticky notes everywhere. But meanwhile, here are the notes and highlights I kept for myself in…
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Categories: Classwork
SFD601(Prayer) at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology
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Continue reading →: SFD601(Prayer) at The Seattle School of Theology and PsychologyI’ve been teaching my first course at The Seattle School this fall. It’s SFD 601, a spiritual formation course in prayer. It’s a required course for Master of Divinity students and is an elective for the other two majors – M.A. in Counseling Psychology and M.A. in Theology & Culture. Although…
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Continue reading →: Down but Back
A month or two ago I realized that this blog was down. I did a bit of investigation but didn’t find the root cause, and frankly didn’t spend much energy on it because I didn’t really know if I wanted to invest the time to recovering the past. Pretty much…
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Continue reading →: Merton on the Spiritual Life
“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.” – Thomas Merton
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Continue reading →: Damien Jurado on Community
This year I have fallen madly in love with local songwriter and musician (genius) Damien Jurado. His new album… oh my goodness, one of my favorites ever. Damien’s a cult hero around Seattle for his wisdom and his gorgeous songs. I just stumbled onto this video. It comes from a…
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