Archive for January, 2009

Practical apocalypticism

Practical apocalypticism

The point that apocalyptic makes is not only that people who wear crowns and who claim to foster justice by the swords are not as strong as they think. It is that people who bear crosses are working with the grain of the universe…

Diligence when prayer grows cold

Diligence when prayer grows cold

You write that you prayed fervently and at once you were calmed, receiving an inner assurance that you would be released from oppression; and then, indeed, it was so. Recall how you prayed and always strive to pray this way, so that prayer comes from the heart and is not just thought by the mind and chattered by the tongue…