by Paraclete Press | Apr 24, 2015 | Terms of Heart
Last Saturday I spent the morning in a workshop on the ancient prayer tradition known as Lectio Divina. This centuries-old form of meditation has been engaged by Christians since at least the 4th century and it is actually much older than that. In fact the practice is...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 15, 2015 | Vision
After my last post several people commented that thinking of David as “a seer after God’s own sight” was a new concept. One noted that she loved learning that “beautiful eyes” can mean the way we see things, and that it would change...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 7, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Vision
God’s selection of the shepherd boy David to replace Saul and to become King of Israel seems to have surprised his father Jesse. He had, after all, neglected to consider David initially as he paraded his other sons before Samuel. Even after the prophet had...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 6, 2015 | Terms of Heart, Voice
Let me begin by saying that I see the answer so clearly that I don’t understand the need for this question. But others do, so I will pose it so I can respond. Did David write the psalms attributed to him? Yes, I think he did and I believe the question of authorship...
by Paraclete Press | Apr 3, 2015 | Terms of Heart
Early one morning in February 2005 I sat alone in a one-room building that had once been a corncrib atop a hill called Mt. San Angelo nestled in the Shenandoah. The quiet and isolation of that tiny space conspired with the sheer beauty of the surrounding Blue Ridge...
