Heather Walker Peterson began ESN's 2018 Lenten devotionals with Lent: Public and Private Healing. For Heather's earlier contributions to ESN, i.e., Giving Thanks, Releasing the Helm, Time Management, Writing as a Spiritual Discipline, click here. Follow this link to explore ESN's previous Lenten devotionals. Lord, who can dwell in your tent? Who can live on your holy mountain? The one who lives blamelessly, practices righteousness, and acknowledges the truth in his heart —Psalm 15:1-2, CSB … [Read more...] about Lenten Healing in the Psalms
Lent: Public and Private Healing
Heather Walker Peterson begins ESN's 2018 Lenten reflections with a two part series on Lent as Healing Time. Her earlier contributions to ESN, i.e., Giving Thanks, Releasing the Helm, Time Management, Writing as a Spiritual Discipline, can be found here. Thank you Heather! Note: Follow this link to explore ESN's previous Lenten devotionals. … [Read more...] about Lent: Public and Private Healing
God’s Abundance: Prioritize a Few Strategic Things, Damage Control the Rest (Time Management Series)
We continue our series on time management with a brief reflection by Heather Peterson. For more ESN posts by Heather, click here. To explore the time management series further, click here. As a department chair, I could pick up my kids at 4:45 p.m. each day, put them to bed at 8, and then neglect my husband while I spend the next 2 to 3 hours catching up on more chair duties or grading. Occasionally, I do do this, but I try to make it once a week and not the rule. I plan 1 to 2 hours each weekend working, and … [Read more...] about God’s Abundance: Prioritize a Few Strategic Things, Damage Control the Rest (Time Management Series)
The Spiritual Act of Naming: Truth Telling in Writing (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Heather Walker Peterson continues our new series, Writing As a Spiritual Discipline. See the first piece in the series here, and see other work by Heather here. Telling the truth is a task entrusted to Adam as he names the animals; it is a responsibility of redeemed humankind which has been told the truth about itself in Jesus. Oliver O'Donovan My desire to write comes from an experience of reading. I read a transforming word. As I am transformed, I wish to influence transformation in a confusing and unjust … [Read more...] about The Spiritual Act of Naming: Truth Telling in Writing (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Giving Thanks: A Christian Approach to Vocation (Scholar’s Compass)
Review of Caleb D. Spencer's “Working Knowledge: Faith, Vocation, and the Evidence of Things Unseen,” in Faithful is Successful. … [Read more...] about Giving Thanks: A Christian Approach to Vocation (Scholar’s Compass)