In this book, I argue for the primacy not of personalities but practices, centering the story of the gospel and the gathered voices of the church as the crucial ground of spiritual formation for Christians throughout history.

How much does the experience of life in a “secular age” make us resistant to spirituality? This book explores how our strange times have formed that resistance and how historic Christian practices can renew us.

Television and movies reveal as much about us as they do their creators and characters. This book explores how the stories we tell (and retell) reveal the deepest longings of the human heart.

The story of Esther is often sanitized as a fairy tale, with kings, princesses, and evil villains. In reality, it’s a complex story about compromise, renewal, and faithful presence in troubled times – and is deeply relevant to our own.