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When the body prays
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xscot mcknight
Doug Pagitt’s new book, Body Prayer: The Posture of Intimacy with God, just came out, I was sent a copy, and I wish to record some brief thoughts.
The Life of a Prayerful Person: During the Return of Shalom
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xscot mcknight
This finishes our series on the “life of a prayerful person,” which puts together the season the prayerful goes through in the Book of Psalms. We can begin with Shalom, experience utter confusion, only to turn the corner to watch Shalom return home again.
The Life of a Prayerful Person: During Confusion
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xscot mcknight
Sometimes life is confusing and we tell God that it is. This can take some practice because we think speaking harshly to God is somehow wrong. But if we are confused, we need to tell God about it. Life, as Walter Brueggemann states, “is also savagely marked by incoherence, a loss of balance, and unrelieved…
The Life of a Prayerful Person: During Shalom
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xscot mcknight
Sometimes life is wonderful and we tell God that it is. Autumn leaves that turn the countryside into images even Monet couldn’t paint, neighborhood picnics in the summer that create trust not previously known, churches that have good preaching and worship and that respond to needs and that create environments of grace and that make…
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