Prayer
Prayer is the heartbeat of the messy, faithful life. Whether you come to it with confidence or doubt, with eloquence or silence, with a rosary in your hands or nowhere near a church — these posts are an invitation to show up anyway. From ancient practices to honest lament, from the Examen to poetry to prayers stitched together from the wreckage of an ordinary day, Messy Jesus Business writers explore what it means to speak, listen, and sit with God in the midst of a complicated world.
Craving a countercultural Christmas
My Christmas Every Day experiment is starting to get awkward. Advent hasn’t even started yet, but Christmas’ crazed and over-weight relative Consumerism is already in town, on…
disturbed in the desert
It’s Lent. I am a disciple, trying to fast and pray in the desert. I’m getting hungry for some great elation, getting worn out from discomforts. I…
Becoming a new fruit and fertilizer
By guest blogger Amy Nee On Ash Wednesday in 2012 I heard: “Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you…
God-centered mundane matters
God is the center of my life. Really, I mean it. God is my life. God consumes my life. Most of my time, thoughts, and…
lent: divorcing our bad habits
I’m going to flip a song over on its head. I want to offer a spiritualization of something that probably was supposed to be completely…
Refresh and restart
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3L3c23MfC0] It’s been nearly a week since we started all this. With ashes smeared upon our foreheads, we committed ourselves to new disciplines. Our motives are…
The Transfiguration
“Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, ‘Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for…
the power of paradox
Our world is a mess and in need of redemption. Christ is coming to save us. Yet, Christ the Light has already come to save…