How does one move from a faith driven by emotional intensity and ministerial performance to the quiet, steady rhythms of the Prayer Book and healing in the ordinary means of grace?
Dustin Grooms is a member and licensed lay reader at St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Maysville, Kentucky, a parish of the Reformed Episcopal Church. He lives in northeastern Kentucky with his wife and three sons and works in higher education. His writing interests include discipleship and spiritual formation, literature, and the intersection of the Christian life with the arts.
Book Review: A Heart Aflame for God
Matthew Bingham, A Heart Aflame for God: A Reformed Approach to Spiritual Formation. Crossway, 2025. 368 pp. The internet is a marvelous and maddening place. A single viral clip can be watched by millions and yet leave no lasting impact beyond a moment of humor, shock, or provocation. At the same time, voices that would…
Book Review: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society (Commemorative Edition) by Eugene Peterson. Intervarsity Press, 2024. “Spiritual formation.” “discipleship.” “Christian living.” One can walk into a Christian bookstore and find plenty of glossy covers promising secrets to growth in forty days, seven steps, three keys, or one weird trick Paul forgot…
