“This is a bitter irony. That a faith based on staggering mysteries –the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Cross and Resurrection, the imparting of the Spirit — should have become shorn of mystery, so plodding and prosaic, so mundane and managerial… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share Image
“In a culture where busyness is a fetish and stillness is laziness, rest is sloth. But without rest, we miss the rest of God:… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
Once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing. God's solution is surprising. He offers… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
Sabbath's golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life. — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
“One of the largest obstacles to true Sabbath-keeping is leisure. It is what cultural historian Witold Rybczynski calls “waiting for the weekend,” where we… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
The examen is a form of personal inventory. At day’s end, spend time in prayerful reflection on your day: your comings and goings, routines… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
“That's how I read the Bible. There are more than sixty references in Scripture to celebration and all but one or two of them… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
“There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts.… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
“Forgiven people "prove" they're forgiven by walking in newness of life. They walk in the light, walk by faith, walk by the Spirit. Forgiveness… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
“Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man… — mark Buchanan Copy Share
“Winter's not for adding things but for cutting things. It's the best season, the safest one, actually, to look closely at all the tangled… — Mark Buchanan Copy Share
