Divinity United

I have just made a few changes to the look of Divinity United. I'm not sure if they will stay, but it has been over a year now so a some tidying up was in order. A few journals have been added to the journal list. All of them should have been there initially, but they are there now. The journals listed are those that I recommend students make use of for their research and writing for class papers.

I have been making my way slowly through Eugene Peterson's, Eat this Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading . I say slowly because I often find myself rereading sections and taking to heart his comments about the need to gnaw on words. Peterson is talking specifically about reading Scripture, but there is a depth to his writing and experience that requires his words to be read over. Here is a quote from the end of his first chapter entitled "The Forbidding Discipline of Spiritual Reading" (p. 11).  "Reading is an immense gift, but only if the words are assimilated, taken into the soul--eaten, chewed, gnawed, received in unhurried delight. Words of men and women long dead, or separated by miles and/or years, come off the page and enter our lives freshly and precisely, conveying truth and beauty and goodness, words that God's Spirit has used and uses to breathe life into our souls. Our access to reality deepens into past centuries, spreads across co...