Search me, O God and know my heart: try me and know my restless thoughts. This was the response in this week’s Common Prayer (a liturgy...

This week I tried to get into the habit of doing examen. For me, that meant simply setting aside the time to actually do a daily examen....

Have you ever seen a person in a scuba suit in the middle of the desert? What about a water fountain in the middle of a lake? Or an...

There are a lot of difficult passages in the bible. Some of those passages are difficult because they are so far removed from our world...

This week I want to offer a tip that seems pretty simple but is a little more complicated in practice. It goes like this: when you read...

We are starting with a big one- GENRE. Simply put genre is a way of categorizing things that have agreed-upon characteristics, together....

"But, how are we supposed to get to know God?" This is a question that I hear people ask all the time, and I think that they usually ask...

I hope that over the course of this series you’ve gleaned some great tips about practicing silence (actually I hope that you are able to...

My alarm goes off. My eyes open to the light. I inhale and stretch my arms up over my head. My feet touch the floor and in a matter of 9...

If you want to practice silence it might be because you’ve probably heard all sorts of things from a variety of people who talk about how...

When was the last time you experienced silence? I mean real silence- like no one is talking to you, kids are not running around screaming...