How do we reorient attention toward God's active presence in everyday life?
Attention isn't neutral. It involves selection and deselection. The attention economy is real, and a Christian who doesn't think carefully about attention has already conceded the field. Reorientation requires practices that retrain attention against the grain of the contemporary environment.
How Should Christians Practice Attention as a Spiritual Discipline?
Attention is the substrate of love and the raw material of formation. In a digital environment engineered to fragment it, the deliberate cultivation of attention — through silence, prayer, slow reading, and embodied presence — becomes one of the central spiritual disciplines of the age.
What Do Communal Practices Form That Individual Disciplines Cannot?
Individual disciplines form individuals. Communal practices form a body. The distinction isn't one of emphasis but of kind. Worship, confession, the Lord's Supper, and the patient bearing-with of difficult people produce a common life that no amount of private practice can substitute for.
What does reordering our loves actually look like?
Augustine's ordo amoris is right: we are what we love, and our lives reflect the arrangement of our affections. Reordering our loves rarely feels dramatic. It is a series of small recalibrations produced not by willpower but by sustained exposure to who God is.
What Role Do Individual Spiritual Disciplines Play in Forming Procedural Knowing?
Spiritual disciplines aren’t achievements or proofs of seriousness. They are practices that, over time, form procedural knowing. Prayer is learned by praying. Scripture reading develops instincts that can’t be acquired any other way. The practices form what no amount of teaching alone can form.