Book of Common Prayer – Jacob A. Davis

The Isles | Transcendence

Posted on July 7, 2018April 14, 2020 by Jacob A. Davis in Anglicanism, Calling, Church, Church Traditions, Friends, Life, Liturgy, Protestantism, Spirituality, The Isles, Writers and Thinkers, Writers, Artists, and Thinkers

Transcendence describes something that transports us beyond our physical existence, something whose whole is on another spiritual plane than the sum of its parts.

By the Book (or: How I Pray in Winter)

Posted on January 26, 2015March 28, 2015 by Jacob A. Davis in Anglicanism, Church, Church Traditions, Life, Liturgy, Roman Catholicism, Spirituality

In the winter, I go through episodes of not being able to string my thoughts together as well as I otherwise do. I even find it hard to pray.

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