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, brother lawrence, buddhist, christians, dallas willard, disciplines, humility, icon, incarnation, judaism, love, new testament, scot mcknight, thomas howard |
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, brother lawrence, 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, roman catholic, schism, scot mcknight, spirit, spiritual |