The PC(USA)’s Book of Common Worship asks for a brief silence of self-examination in Night Prayer. What is one to do during this time? Calvin closed one answer to us on purpose, I propose a recovered Reformed examen, one commandment and one day at a time.
“Each day make a list of the things to be prayed for,” wrote Francis Grimké, “so that when we enter our closet we shall have something to say to God.” A post on the old pastor of Fifteenth Street, a rebuilt prayer planner, and written intercession inside the daily office.
Steven Nemes goes looking for nationalism in the call of Abram. What he finds is an order of creation, and the twentieth century has already shown us where those lead.