With the new term opening, let's get serious with Bob Trube's review of Teaching and Christian Practices: Reshaping Faith and Learning (David I. Smith & James K.A. Smith, editors. Eerdmans, 2011) and a few bonus articles. Please feel free to comment on the project, book, bonus articles, even supply additional resource links to expand the conversation :) Note to all our readers: As I have done previously, I encourage you to read a book before you comment upon it :) It's my intention that reviews such as those … [Read more...] about Book Review: Teaching and Christian Practices
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Christian Devotional Classics: Spiritual Friendship
Aelred of Rievaulx (1110 – 1167) on Spiritual Friendship St. Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) was a twelfth-century Cistercian abbot and well-known spiritual writer, whose treatise "Spiritual Friendship," is widely considered a classic of Christian spirituality. Inspired by Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero's philosophical dialogue, "On Friendship," Aelred approaches his subject from a decidedly religious standpoint, examining both the theoretical and practical aspects of friendship in the light of … [Read more...] about Christian Devotional Classics: Spiritual Friendship