Prayer Resources

Confession, Vulnerability, and Healing

You may often hear Christians use the word confession. “Oh, I have to go to confession.” “Let us make a confession of faith.” “Can I make a confession?” It’s something we do, yet don’t do. Confession can mean many things. We can confess our sins. We can confess our...

Unhurried and Inefficient

Haste can be a mark of the evil spirit, while an unhurried—even inefficient—pace is often a mark of God’s kingdom.

Imaginative Prayer for Children

How do we introduce Ignatian spirituality to children? I speak with Jared Boyd, author of Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide for Your Child’s Spiritual Formation. Oh, and there’s a guided meditation at the end.

Accompaniment: Walking Away from America’s Achievement Culture

Do we have time to slow down and walk with another or are we “lost in the isolation of success and self-conservation”?

Ask Me Anything! (FB Live Event)

View or listen to my “Ask Me Anything” Facebook Live event.

The Grace I Seek (Bedtime Meditation)

The evening follow-up to the morning meditation on grace. (Companions morning meditation)

Reading Your Heart

In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Barney looked over the last 24 hours of experiences to see what his heart told him on his cardiogram. It’s a practice we can use in the spiritual life, sans the cardiogram.

Doing Nothing Often Leads to the Very Best Something

In the 2018 film Christopher Robin, we see Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin standing on a bridge chatting. Christopher Robin asks Pooh what he loves doing best. "Going to see you," he replies. Christopher agrees but then says, "What I like doing best is nothing."...

Pope Francis on Encounter

A call to human and divine encounter. Also, details on a special offer for Pope Francis’ new book.

The Path to a Happy Life

God wants us to have a happy life. But how? It’s not power, honour or riches that lead us there, but a strange and paradoxical path.

Prayer is an invitation from God, inviting us into relationship with God. It gives us a chance to take part in the story of creation, have an effect on the world, be involved in its God-story, and most importantly, reflect on how we contribute. These resources hope to reveal the infinite facets of prayer, the many ways we reach God, and how God reaches into our lives: in love, with words, in silence, seeking our desires, at different times, in different places.