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Monk Habits for Everyday People: Benedictine Spirituality for Protestants is unavailable, but you can change that!

In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed how the meditative and ordered life of a monk lifted Jesus' teachings off the printed page and...

kingdom of God (as Jesus pointed out in Matthew 6), Bloom explains: The moment we try to be rich by keeping something safely in our hands, we are the losers, because as long as we have nothing in our hands, we can take, leave, do whatever we want. … Have you ever noticed that to be rich always means an impoverishment on another level? It is enough for you to say, “I have this watch, it is mine,” and close your hand on it, to be in possession of a watch and to have lost a hand. And if you close your
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