Fénelon on the Christian Who Has Stopped Hoping
Fenelon when hope goes quiet — a slow read of Spiritual Progress for the Christian whose hope has thinned and who cannot manufacture it back.
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Fénelon on Why God Allows Dryness
Fénelon on spiritual dryness God allows — three slow passages from Spiritual Progress on the aridity that is not absence but the deeper purification of the soul.
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Fénelon on the Disinterested Love That Survives Loss
Fénelon on the disinterested love of God — a contemplative reading of Spiritual Progress for the woman whose consolations have been removed and whose love must hold.
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Fénelon on Loving God Without Feeling It
Fenelon loving god without feeling — the will loves even when the heart is cold. A slow reading of Spiritual Progress for the saint in the dry season.
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What Fénelon Said the Christian Must Lose to Gain
Fenelon loss and gain — a slow read on what feels like loss being the soul emptied to receive. For the woman who can’t tell what was taken or by whom.
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Andrew Murray on Working for God Without Striving
Christian burnout in ministry — and you don’t know how to stop. A slow reading of Andrew Murray’s Working for God on the strength that does the work in you.
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What Andrew Murray Promised the Waiting Soul
How does God renew the soul? Andrew Murray’s Waiting on God answers slowly — a contemplative reading of the renewal that comes when you stop forcing it.
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What Andrew Murray’s Waiting on God Actually Asks of You
What Andrew Murray’s Waiting on God actually asks of you — waiting as a posture of the soul, not a delay to be endured. A slow read of the book.
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How to Overcome Doubt — Murray on the Faith That Survives Doubting
How to overcome doubt as a Christian — Murray on the faith that survives doubting. Not by louder certainty, but by the soul still unto God.
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What Can We Learn From Job’s Suffering? — Augustine on Patient Endurance
What can we learn from Job in the Bible? Augustine’s slow reading of the man who lost everything and worshipped before he understood. Contemplative.
