by Peter James | Feb 21, 2025 | John Wesley
Imagine yourself sitting in a small gathering of Christians. The appointed leader asks the same questions of each participant. You know the questions beforehand since they are asked at every meeting. How will you answer when the questions are asked of you? 1. Am I...
by Peter James | Feb 20, 2025 | St. Francis of Assisi
It is commonly called The Prayer of St. Francis. I hate to burst the bubble, but there is no record of the prayer anywhere in Francis’ writings. The earliest mention of the prayer associated with Francis is in a 1912 French periodical. The prayer gained popularity...
by Peter James | Feb 19, 2025 | J. R. R. Tolkien
He was a young professor sitting at his home office grading papers. One student inadvertently left a page blank in his bluebook exam. The professor described what happened next. “I wrote in it, ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'” You may...
by Peter James | Feb 18, 2025 | Richard of Chichester
It’s not often that a prayer by a medieval bishop becomes the impetus for a pop song, but such is the case with a song from the musical Godspell. Who could have imagined that the catchy triplicate rhyme from the refrain of “Day by Day” sung by a...
by Peter James | Feb 17, 2025 | Richard Foster
You may recall the Socratic dictum, “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.” As much as we may agree with his sentiment, there’s something within us that resists personal scrutiny. Perhaps we’re afraid of what we might find. We’d rather deceive ourselves into...
