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Integratio Press, CCSN’s imprint, is collecting a year’s worth of prayers on or about faithful communication for a short book. These can be original prayers you have written, or prayers throughout church history that address some meaningful aspect of communication. Also, the prayer can be a meaningful quote–anything from a sentence to a full paragraph or more–from a Church Father …

Father, thank you for your gift of communication. Please forgive me for ways I may have misused your gift, hurt others with my words, not listened in love, and not honored you with my communication. I ask for help from the Holy Spirit with my words so I can show your love to others with the words I speak. I …

“Hurry is the great enemy of the spiritual life in our day. You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Dallas Willard, answering John Ortberg’s question, “What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?” Reference Dallas Willard, as reported by John Mark Comer in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (Waterbrook, 2019), pp: 18-19.

Former Fuller Theological Seminary President Richard J. Mouw, in discussing the “life of the mind,” suggests we need academic spaces that allow us to play with ideas, to mentor, and to be mentored in ways that leverage resources and build partnerships. Speaking to Christian scholars, Mouw suggests: “We cannot avoid the ‘weight of the cross’ as we attempt to fulfill …

Thank you Lord Jesus, Master, for the joy of walking with you, running the course, discerning the rhythm. Help me not to miss a beat, but to follow the Kingdom way —truly be your disciple and friend and witness. Amen. * * * Jesus told his disciples, “If you want to follow me you must deny yourselves, take up your …

“The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.”[i]—Ezra Pound [i] Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (New York, NY: New Direction Books, 2010), 34.