by Alan Fadling | Apr 30, 2024 | Prayer
This was originally posted on May 5, 2021 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. A Practice of Silent Prayer Recently, I’ve restarted my daily practice of silent prayer. Like many who try this practice, I feel an immense amount of resistance arising within me against my...
by Bill Rowley | Nov 13, 2023 | Liturgy, Peace, Prayer
Prayer Service for Peace in Israel and Palestine This service is designed as an evening, outdoor prayer vigil using handheld candles. Feel free to modify the order of worship as needed, including for use as an indoor service. Service calls for five large candles for...
by Scott Bullock | Oct 3, 2023 | Prayer, Psalms, Worship
My Daily Soundtrack Often, my daily life is filled with a soundtrack of my own choosing. When I sit for long periods of time to do something rather mundane, like reconcile the checkbook, pay bills, or clean up the ever growing email account, I am accompanied by...
by Alan Fadling | Sep 12, 2023 | Listening, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
Note: This was originally posted on July 12, 2023 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. Over the years, I have led hundreds of retreats that have at their center a few hours to be alone and quiet in listening prayer. At one such retreat, one participant shared a...
by Bill Rowley | Aug 16, 2023 | Prayer
As August wraps up and Labor Day is right around the corner, your congregation is gearing up to go back to school for the 2023-2024 academic year! With it comes excitement and plenty of anxiety about what entering school or moving up a grade means for students and...
by Alan Fadling | Jul 4, 2023 | Life, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
I’ve often shared the story of my first experience of solitude and silence at the beginning of 1990. It was led by one of my mentors, Wayne Anderson, as part of a class I was taking at Fuller Seminary. I tell a little of that story in An Unhurried Life (see p. 20ff),...
