I will have some substantive things to say about Paul Miller’s excellent and thoughtful book A Praying Life, but today let’s just settle with one simply ‘Amen’ that is not related to prayer at all.
In discussing how vestiges of greek thinking leaves us with an over-spiritualized idea of prayer, he says that these ideas ‘seeped into the church, equating spirituality with a suppression of desire and emotion.’
Then he points out what made me smile:
‘That’s why Jesus comes across in so many films as a bit strange and effeminate. He walks slowly, talks slowly, and moves slowly. You want to put a pin in him.’
That’s exactly what I want to do.
