This from Christian Wiman in his moving book My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Christ speaks in stories as a way of preparing his followers to stake their lives on a story, because existence is not a puzzle to be solved, but a narrative to be inherited and undergone and transformed person by person. …
The Teacher Sits
Only someone who is silent is listening....Thus, the world reveals itself to the silent listener and only to him; the more silently he listens, the more purely is he able to perceive reality. - Josef Pieper The Teacher sits like a child on the floor in a room of adults standing above him. He speaks …
Four More Quotations on Prayer
Last week, I shared four quotations on prayer from my message "Making Space for Prayer." Here are four more quotations from my message, "Praying Like a Master," which is the second part of our series "The Art of Prayer" at Eastbrook Church. “The Lord’s prayer is the essence of prayer. The essence and limit of all …
Four Quotations on Prayer
This past weekend in my message "Making Space for Prayer," the first part of our series "The Art of Prayer" at Eastbrook Church, I shared four quotations on prayer that many people asked me about later. Here they are for your edification. “The truth is that we only learn to pray all the time everywhere after …
The Warmth of Other Suns (Book Reflections)
In light of the racial tensions in Milwaukee and other places, here is a book I would recommend that everyone read to understand the history of African-Americans in our nation, including the great migration, the Jim Crow era, and beyond.
Matthew Erickson 