What Is Your Practice?

What Is Your Practice? presents a variety of foundational Christian ascetical practices, translated into contemporary idiom. Instead of relying on imperatives and fixed answers, readers are encouraged to experiment with and commit to sustained practices that can help them to live faithfully with imp [...]
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What Is Your Practice? presents a variety of foundational Christian ascetical practices, translated into contemporary idiom. Instead of relying on imperatives and fixed answers, readers are encouraged to experiment with and commit to sustained practices that can help them to live faithfully with important questions during unsettled times.A practice is most effective when it becomes a habit or disposition and a part of how we live day to day. This informative and inspirational book focuses on opportunities available within the normal patterns of everyday activity. Readers need not adopt all the suggested practices at once, but rather become acquainted with a menu of choices appropriate for spiritual nurture for differing temperaments and at different periods within a lifetime. Questions at the end of each chapter make the book suitable for parish groups, as well as for individual reading.For Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and others - individually and in small groups - seeking spiritual growth