Embracing the Body: Finding God in Our Flesh and Bone, Tara M. Owens. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2015. Summary: An invitation to move beyond guilt and shame around our embodied selves to discover the goodness of our bodies and how God made us, meets us, and works through our bodied lives. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Embracing the Body
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Book Review: What Your Body Knows About God, by Rob Moll
What Your Body Knows About God: How We Are Designed to Connect, Serve and Thrive. Rob Moll. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014. Summary: Explores how our neurophysiology enables us to connect to God and others and how spiritual practices, liturgies, and opportunities to serve enable us to physically as well as spiritually thrive. … [Read more...] about Book Review: What Your Body Knows About God, by Rob Moll
“Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)
John Runciman, King Lear in the Storm, 1767 Act III of Shakespeare's King Lear gets to me every time. Lear, spectacularly blinded by pride and bereft of power in his old age, having foolishly exiled one daughter and exposed himself to betrayal by the other two, retreats into a storm with his Fool and descends into madness, shaking his fist at nature, railing, “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!” … [Read more...] about “Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)
Vocatio Christ: The Contours of Our Callings Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)
Quotation Excerpts from Learning in Wartime, by C. S. Lewis, woven throughout post. Reflection In my last post I argued that so long as Christians' talk about “finding one's calling” is held captive by the modern American idea that self-realization only happens by way of unfettered, individual self-expression, our talk of vocation will be far-removed from Christ's call to live lives of self-sacrificial love. This way of thinking about vocation is inherently self-absorbed and will, more often than not, be blind to our … [Read more...] about Vocatio Christ: The Contours of Our Callings Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)
Book Review: Is Your Lord Large Enough?
Is Your Lord Large Enough? How C. S. Lewis Expands Our View of God. Peter J. Schakel. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2008. Summary: This book looks at the contribution Lewis made, particularly through the way his books engage the imagination, to the spiritual formation of Christians, exploring a number of the matters crucial to their growth in Christ. Peter J. Schakel has written a number of fine books on C.S. Lewis including one on Till We Have Faces (Reason and Imagination in C.S. Lewis: A Study of … [Read more...] about Book Review: Is Your Lord Large Enough?