“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself,
and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean
that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.” 
― Thomas Merton,
Who was Born on this Day, 1915.

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Thomas Merton's Work


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* Book Giveaway: Karl Barth in Conversation [5 copies]

A new collection of correspondence, articles, interviews,
and other short-form writings by Karl Barth from 1959-1962…
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Barth in Conversation: Volume 1, 1959-1962.  Eberhard Busch, Editor.
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* St. Thomas Aquinas – Three Hymns [Poems]
Jan. 28 marks the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
We celebrate the occasion with three hymns that he wrote, 
and that have been passed down through church history…

 

* Thomas Dekker – Four Birds of Noah’s Ark [Review]

Giving Us Words. A Review of Four Birds of Noah’s Ark:
A Prayerbook From the Time Of Shakespeare
Thomas Dekker  (Paperback: Eerdmans, 2017)
Reviewed by Colin Chan Redemer