Archive - The Lectio Letter

The Lectio Letter - Issue #95 - The Revolution will be Catered

I'm writing a shorter Lectio today as I'm immersed in a wonderful family reunion in the Devonshire Countryside.

Jun 20 •

May 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #94 - A Domestic Monastery in a World of Chaos

“I've learnt to become deeply suspicious of advice which leads Christians to create too much distance between our inner life and some kind of outer…

May 23

April 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #93 - Chasing Money Changers and Pouring out Perfume this Easter Week

“If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict.

Apr 16

March 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #92 - 40 Pieces of Advice at 40

“Advice; It’s more fun to give than receive “

Mar 25

The Lectio Letter - Issue #91 - What's Your Calling? | 3 Pieces of Advice

“But Calling, as I see it, is the way God has called you to bear His Image in the World.

Mar 3

January 2025

The Lectio Letter - Issue #90 - All the books I read in 2024 Reviewed

"Spiritual reading, for most of us, requires either the recovery or acquisition of skills not in current repute: leisurely, repetitive, reflective…

Jan 23 •

December 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #89 - Advent's Good News: Your life is too small and You Can't Work Hard Enough

Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world.

Dec 20, 2024

November 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #88 - 3 Reasons I (often) don't call myself a missionary

"Unfortunately, evangelicals in mission still tend to proceed as though their major problems are methodological.

Nov 22, 2024

October 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #87 - Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

“Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how that…

Oct 27, 2024

September 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #86 - 10 Things for Travel & How Technology changes what occurs to us to do

Welcome to Issue #86 of the Lectio Letter. This members-only newsletter is (normally) filled with music, film and food suggestions, links, and an…

Sep 10, 2024

July 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #85 - The Kids Aren't Alright - Anxiety and Technology

“With so many new and exciting virtual activities, many adolescents (and adults) lost the ability to be fully present with the people around them, which…

Jul 16, 2024

June 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #84 - The Way On Is Not The Way Back - Mapping the Seasons of Faith, Pt. 3

“We cannot escape most of the crises in our lives, nor should we.

Jun 20, 2024

May 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #83 - The Way On Is Not The Way Back - Mapping the Seasons of Faith, Pt. 2

The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment,

May 13, 2024

April 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #82 - The Way On Is Not The Way Back - Mapping the Seasons of Faith, Pt. 1

"Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to…

Apr 26, 2024

March 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #81 - Significantly Insignificant

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

Mar 28, 2024

February 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #80 - A More Political Faith

“…for many today faith is defined as the opposite of evidence-based truth.

Feb 27, 2024

January 2024

The Lectio Letter - Issue #79 - All the books I read in 2023 Reviewed

"Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of…

Jan 23, 2024 •

December 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #78 - Holding on to Hope

“A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes – and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a…

Dec 24, 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #78 - Gardening your inner life at the end of the year

Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

Dec 8, 2023

November 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #77 - Why I don't (often) give practical advice followed by 3 pieces of practical advice

“You should remember that a word of good advice does not apply to every situation.

Nov 17, 2023

October 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #76 - Who's in and Who's Out and Who is in the Centre?

The question which Baker has us think about throughout his book is whether following Jesus is about a line we cross or a direction we face.

Oct 1, 2023

September 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #75 - Part III of "You need Therapy!" - Interview with Anne Harrington

“So many Christ-followers have not had an experience of Jesus as our ultimate healer; deep down they fear that if they allow their wounds to be exposed…

Sep 13, 2023

August 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #74 - Part II of "You need Therapy!" - Interview with Anne Harrington

Welcome to Issue #74 of the Lectio Letter. This members-only newsletter is filled with music, film and food suggestions, links, and an article written…

Aug 31, 2023

The Lectio Letter - Issue #73 - You need Therapy! - INTERVIEW with Anne Harrington

“God's passion is to rig the world so that we are compelled to deal with whatever blocks us from being like His glorious Son.”

Aug 15, 2023

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