In this video I take a look at the 1986 Daily Office Book (Year One & Year Two) a beautifully crafted Daily Office Book Set of the Episcopal Church. Designed to bring Scripture, Psalms, and the Offices together in one place, this set offers a seamless way to enter into…
Category: Well-Read & Well-Prayed
This is where books meet devotion.
In this space, I reflect on prayer books, spiritual classics, contemporary theology, and the kinds of works that shape the interior life. These are not academic summaries or promotional reviews. They are thoughtful engagements: reading slowly, weighing carefully, and asking what forms the soul toward Christ.
Some books inform. Some inspire. The best ones transform.
Here I consider which voices help us pray more deeply, live more courageously, and think more clearly. Because what we read shapes how we pray and how we pray shapes how we live.
To be well-read is good. To be well-prayed is better. This is the work of becoming both.
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Prayer Book Offices Review
In this review, I take a close look at Prayer Book Offices (2020) from Church Publishing Incorporated—a volume that gathers the Daily Office from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer into a single book. On paper, it’s a compelling idea: Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline all in…
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The Prayer Book Office By Howard Galley 1980
In this video I take a look at a fascinating and somewhat forgotten companion to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer: The Prayer Book Office, compiled and edited by Howard Galley and published in 1980. Designed to enrich the Daily Office with seasonal antiphons, proper texts, and additional liturgical material,…
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Book Review: “Everything Could Be a Prayer” By Kreg Yingst
Book Review: “Everything Could Be a Prayer” By Kreg Yingst In Everything Could Be a Prayer, Kreg Yingst brings together art, contemplation, and the lives of those who have walked closely with God, not in abstraction, but in flesh and history. Through hand-carved wood and linoleum prints, Yingst portrays mystics,…