Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth

“Show your servants your work And their children your glory; And may the grace of the Lord our God be upon us; Prosper the work of our hands; O prosper our handiwork.” Ps. 90.16-17 #psalms

“ alight has sprung up for the righteous, And joyful gladness for those who are true hearted. Rejoice in the Lord, you righteous, And give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Ps. 97.11-12 #psalms Joyful gladness!!

Ezekiel 22: 29-30 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice. 30 “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the

“He makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.” Ps 104.4 #psalms

I'm pleased to be in the WSJ this morning on my girl Flannery. 🦚🦚🦚

“As for me, I will give great thanks unto the Lord with my mouth, and praise him among the multitude, For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save their souls from the unrighteous judges.” Ps. 109.29-30 #psalms

Hey. My favorite book that I wrote with this title is being released in paperback format. July 8th! Pretty, pretty, cool. Share the good news and complete your collection! ivpress.com/you-are-not-yo…

The Trump Administration is chilling the speech of *all* student visa holders and green-card holders regardless of their stance on any particular issue—and this clearly and obviously undermines America's free speech culture. More on all this from me soon.

Marilynne Robinson: “Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.”

Women have flooded the faith and work movement in the past 20 years. Is it any coincidence that our conversations around theology of work have become more nuanced, empathic, multilayered, emotionally intelligent, and spiritually rich?? Maybe leaving them out was a mistake.

Blessed is the one who… “his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law will he mediate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the waterside, that will bring forth his fruit in due season.” Ps. 1:2-3 #psalms

My top 10 religious novels of the 20th century (one to an author): 1 Tolkien, Lord of the Rings 2 Undset, Kristen Lavransdatter 3 Sienkiewicz, Quo Vadis? 4 Mauriac, Vipers' Tangle 5 Lewis, Till We Have Faces 6 Bernanos, Diary of a Country Priest 7 Bacchelli, The Gaze of Jesus 8

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What the middle column (especially when you make the power of the resurrection explicit and draw out its effectiveness) shows is union. Union with Christ is the foundation; benefits like forgiveness & eternal life come from that.

Did not know this! I'll now be deleting a bunch of janky pdfs of Augustine & Ambrose & co, since there's open access to respectable & well-typeset critical editions.

Hard to believe but I got to hold in my hands an actual physical copy of The Augustinian Pastor. This book is the fruit of so many kindnesses from God. So excited to share it and for others to learn some of what I have gleaned from Augustine of Hippo.

Reading the news of the day can tempt us to despair, and despair’s insidious effect is to rob us of the ability to care by numbing us to the grief of our neighbors and to the horror of real-time tragedies that play out in our own backyards and across the planet. And so we pray: