Archive - The Lectio Letter

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

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

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

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

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

February 2024

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

“…for many today faith is defined as the opposite of evidence-based truth. This is neither a biblical nor a Christian understanding of faith.”

Feb 27

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 •

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. Except this advice, of course.”

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. True…

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

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