Showcase: Assorted Treats

  • Where do I Find Myself? +

    All I Can Do Is Be Me -Whoever That IsBob Dylan Who are we? Do we follow the motivations of Read More
  • Forgiveness: Desmond Tutu +

    Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu explains how love and forgiveness kept post-apartheid South Africa from tumbling into anarchy. Read More
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Publications

Some things he said

A good place to visit . . . http://andysusanlectionary.blogspot.com/

Andie's Isle

Andie’s Isle at http://www.andiesisle.com/ is a website of flash/video presentations he has collected which have wholesome messages worthy of contemplation.  He states on his homepage that he has no hidden agenda, tracking devices, or costs.  There are over 30 videos and he adds more periodically.  All are good and uplifting to watch and on which to meditate.

Charles H.

Speaking to the Heart

sun_clouds3_500Speaking to the Heart: 100 Favorite Poems chosen and introduced by Sister Wendy Beckett, fulfills a long-felt need of mine: a book of poetry that deals with topics related to the Christian faith without being saccharine on the one hand or ungodly on the other. Instead, to quote Sister Wendy,

what we have here is a spiritual sense, something far wider and more elemental. There is religious poetry, with its defining religious vocabulary, but not much of it here. Just as I have always felt the essence of great painting was its spirituality, and that this applies as much to Degas’s ballet dancers as it does to Fra Angelico’s virgins, so is it true of poetry.

Read more: Speaking to the Heart

Devotional Classics

DevoptionalClassicsThis collection edited by Richard Foster and James Bryan Smith and published by Harper Collins, is a collection of fifty-two classic readings organized as a yearlong devotional study for individuals or groups.

Devotional Classics is divided into five topical sections: The Prayer-Filled Life, The Virtuous Life, The Spirit-Empowered Life, The Compassionate Life, and The Word-Centered Life.

Read more: Devotional Classics

The Sacrament of the Present Moment

sacrament_of_the_present_momentThis is an excellent translation by Kitty Muggeridge, the wife of journalist Malcolm Muggeridge, of the celebrated spiritual classic by Jean-Pierre de Caussade. In his collection of devotions Caussade offers wisdom, hope, and inspiration as he offers advice for living in communion with God by experiencing each moment as a sacrament.
Caussade shows how God speaks to those who seek Him during every moment of every day. He not only encourages a continous selfless and joyful abandonment to God but also gives practical advice on how that can be done.

Read more: The Sacrament of the Present Moment

Reflections to Consider

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Publications

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Music

  • River of Love

    There's a river of love that runs through all timeBut there's a river of grief that floods through our livesIt Read More
  • I Am Nothing

    I stutter when I tryTo speak the language of lifeI want to shout out loudBut I just cry insideSometimes it Read More
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Audio & Video

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Favorites

  • Transforming this World: The Hope of Glory by NT Wright +

    Wright confronts the perspective that this world doesn’t matter, and that we live only to be in heaven. He shows Read More
  • What is Good in a World that Defies Hope: a talk by NT Wright +

    This is the second part of three talks by NT Wright at Harvard University in November, 2008 on the topic Read More
  • The Stream, the Lake and the River: NT Wright +

      Acts 2.1-21; John 7.37-39; a sermon at the Eucharist on the Feast of Pentecost, 11 May 2008, by the Read More
  • Jesus in the Perfect Storm by NT Wright +

    Zechariah 9.9-17; Luke 19.28-48; A sermon for Palm Sunday, April 17, 2011, In the University Chapel of St Salvator, St Read More
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Hidden Blessings

  • Christ is a Great Savior: a review of the movie Amazing Grace +

    Amazing Grace is a historical drama about William Wilberforce who was elected to British Parliament at the age of 21 Read More
  • Wilberforce, Hollywood's Amazing Grace, Charlotte Allen +

    William Wilberforce's relentless campaign eventually led the British Parliament to ban the slave trade, in 1807, and to pass a Read More
  • Making Beauty out of Ugly Things: Grace by U2 +

    Grace, she takes the blame She covers the shame Removes the stain It could be her name Grace, she carries Read More
  • The True Nature of Grace and Love: a movie review of the Soloist +

    The 2009 movie The Soloist is based on a book by the same name, written by Los Angeles Times columnist Read More
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