Knowing the voice of the Holy Spirit is essential for the role of the spiritual director. It is the director’s job to listen to the directee’s story while also listening to the Spirit for promptings to help the directee see where God may be working in his/her life. In God the Spirit: Introducing Pneumatology in …
Book Review: The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life
As a spiritual director, I draw upon all the resources in my toolbox to help people look for where God is working in their lives. One of those resources is a book I read while in graduate school: Robert Webber’s The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life. It changed the way I think about …
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Book Review: My Soul Waits: Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms
Several years ago, while going through a painful period in my life, the book My Soul Waits: Solace for the Lonely in the Psalms by Marva Dawn brought me much comfort, and I have also recommended it to others, who have reported the same back to me. Marva Dawn is no stranger to suffering, living …
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Book Review: Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering
Last year I read Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering by Kelly M. Kapic and found it to be both wonderfully comforting and theologically challenging. Little did I know how much the words of this book would come to be so relevant in our global lives. The topic of pain and suffering …
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Lent: Abundant Life
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” John 10:10 The Gospel of Jesus Christ is about life. Not just mere existence, but an abundant life in God’s good creation. It is about restoring a relationship with the God of the Universe. …
Epiphany: Follow the Light
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” John 1:5 Light is a penetrating force. A single candle lights a dark room. Stars burning billions of miles from earth light up the night sky, allowing sailors of old to navigate the seas. A single star many years ago called a …
Christmas: Do Not Fear
And ye, beneath life's crushing load, whose forms are bending low, who toil along the climbing way with painful steps and slow, look now! for glad and golden hours come swiftly on the wing. O rest beside the weary road, and hear the angels sing! - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, vs 3 The …
Advent: Preparation for a Banquet
“I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” Matthew 26:29 A traditionally Eucharistic passage may seem like an odd place to begin Advent. A passage from Isaiah prophesying the first or second coming of Messiah …
Joshua Strickler 