By Scott | Published:
February 5, 2010
The fourth chapter of Thomas Howard’s book, Prayer: Random or Discipline?, is devoted to his encounter with the Christian discipline of corporate set prayers that began when he returned to the University of Illinois for graduate studies. He began attending the daily Office of Evening Prayer at a small chapel across the street. He describes [...]
Posted in Evangelical Is Not Enough | Also tagged acts of the apostles, apostle, buddhist, christians, dallas willard, disciplines, humility, icon, incarnation, judaism, love, new testament, praying with the church, scot mcknight, thomas howard |
By Scott | Published:
June 7, 2009
I’ve read Julie Clawson’s post, Disappointed with Emergent?, and followed the replies with a fair degree of interest. I’ve thought about what I might say in a comment and it’s never really seemed to fit the focus and flow of the discussion or be something I could say succinctly. As I’ve thought about it, I’ve [...]
Posted in Faith | Also tagged body, Christian, christianity, clawson, conservative culture, conversations, different perspective, evangelicalism, Faith, God, Jesus, jesus of nazareth, love, N.T. Wright, Orthodox, orthodoxy, person, reality, scot mcknight, spirit, spiritual |
By Scott | Published:
May 13, 2009
This post in the series should wrap up the meandering thread I’ve been tracing through the story of my life. For no discussion of encounters with fasting communities could ever be complete without discussing Orthodoxy. Somehow, in all my wide-ranging study, modern Orthodoxy still managed to catch me off-guard. Like many, at least in the [...]
Posted in Celiac, Fasting | Also tagged anger, breath prayer, Christian, Didache, disciplines, Faith, Fast, Fasting, God, great schism, great schism of 1054, Jesus, jesus prayer, love, Orthodox, orthodox church, orthodoxy, practice of the presence of god, prayer, prayers, praying with the church, roman catholic, schism, scot mcknight, spirit, spiritual |
By Scott | Published:
May 12, 2009
As my efforts to understand this Christian faith within which I found myself continued, I kept reading both the Holy Scriptures and patristic writings from the first millenium. Nowhere could I find a change from the core communal practices of fasting, set prayer, and care for the sick and poor (at the very least through [...]
Posted in Celiac, Fasting | Also tagged alms, body, Christian, christianity, constantinople, disciplines, eucharist, Faith, Fast, Fasting, fasting and prayer, God, Holy Scriptures, islam, person, practice of the presence of god, prayer, reformers, roman catholic, roman empire, scripture, sermon on the mount, spirit, spiritual |