the Essays & Reflections
Tag: Prayer
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Let us Pray – An Encouragment to a Life of Prayer
On March 2nd 2025, I was fortunate enough to give the homily to the Mustard Seed Church out of St Margaret’s Church in Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Thank you to Andrew Strutzenberg for the invitation, and to the whole church for such a warm reception. May these words also enrich your faith.
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Translating the Psalms for a Book of Hours
Translating scripture is a complex process. I pull back the curtain on the translation process of the Psalms for the Divine Office. From sources to some of the complexities involved in this interpretive process.
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Practices over Ideas and starting Urban Monasticism
This is the transcript of a talk given earlier in the summer of 2020. I was one of a dozen or so presenters looking at how the church might need to adapt for the future. There is the global pandemic, climate change/catastrophe, beginning of the end of the American Empire, the rapid secularization of the
