There are many excellent books on Lectio Divina, the sacred reading of Scripture. The problem with these books is that they are books—long and easily divorced from the actual contemplative practice. Instead, I offer a list of 46 “theses” or “chapters” on Lectio Divina. Each thesis is short, distilling thoughts and quotations into a single…
What is Lectio Divina?
How do we read Scripture? What happens when we sit down with our Bibles and begin to pore over the wisdom God has given us through its ancient authors? In our rationalistic world, we often find it easy to study the Bible but not as easy to meditate upon and absorb it. We’re tempted to…
A People of One Book
“I want to know one thing—the way to heaven…Let me be homo unius libri [A man of one book]. Here, then, I am, far from the busy ways of men. I sit down alone: Only God is here. In his presence I open, I read his book; for this end, to find the way to…
9 Simple Ways to Deepen Your Time in the Word
If in-depth Bible study is like a day on a commercial fishing boat in a yellow slicker, hauling in the catch, exhausted at the end of the day, scripture meditation is more like pulling up to the table with a salmon roasted in white wine chatting about the catch with a good friend. The first…
An Easy Way to Get More Scripture in Your Life
Introducing The SLOW Word Movement, a weekly lectio divina subscription for Anglicans: What if you could sit back and push play and have a spiritual director help you to meditate today on next Sunday’s scripture? Right where you are. Right in the midst of the press of everyday life. What if you could begin preparing…
