Category Archives: spirituality
Hymns for Holy Week- My Song is Love Unknown
My song is love unknown, My Saviour’s love to me; Love to the loveless shown, That they might lovely be. O who am I, that for my sake My Lord should take frail flesh and die? He came from His … Continue reading
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“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”
Since it’s MLK day, and I studied some civil rights rhetoric in undergrad, here’s my favorite. It was delivered April 3, 1968, and he was assassinated the following day. “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with … Continue reading
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Good quotes from Douglas Van Steere and those he quotes
From The Abbe de Tourville: “Do not keep acounts with our Lord . . . Go bankrupt! Let our Lord love you without justice! Say frankly, ‘He loves me because I do not deserve it; tha tis the wonderful thing … Continue reading
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Embodiment # 3: excerpts from reflection paper
“Come in! Come in!” The high A notes fly and spin out of my mouth as I sing what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Magi in the Christmas song “Three Kings.” This part of the song is absolutely … Continue reading
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Into Great Silence
I had to watch this documentary for spirituality class. Into Great Silence portrays the life of a Carthusian monastery in Alpine France. There are only a few Carthusian monasteries still in existence, and they still live in many ways that … Continue reading
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Embodiment # 2
Here are some more thoughts I’ve had about spiritual practices of “embodiment”: 1. The need for fasting to be accompanied with feasting. 2. The laying of hands when someone prays for you is an important way that another person’s whole … Continue reading
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on grades
One of my professors said this the other day: “I do not know of a Duke graduate who was denied ordination because he got a 3.0 rather than a 3.8. I do however know certain Duke honor graduates who were … Continue reading
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Thoughts on Sabbath
For Old Testament we read Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: It’s Meaning for Modern Man. The book is a contemplative, poetic, and almost mystical description of Sabbath from a Jewish theological perspective. Despite the ironic amount of HARD WORK … Continue reading
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Embodiment 1
For my Christian Spirituality class, we have been split up into groups, and each group is practicing a different kind of discipline/historical Christian practice–think tithing, solitude, sabbath, prayer. And then my group got “embodiment.” Nice and nebulously ambiguous. Spiritual practices … Continue reading
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