In this episode, Riley and Christopher tackle the question of the actionability of Christian contemplation, given the fact that it is often misunderstood as mere navel gazing. In the spirit of the saying of the great Sufi, Algazel, who wrote that, “Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity,” Christopher and Riley make a case for the conjunction of contemplation and action as each side of this seeming pair of opposites is incomplete without the other.
Latter-day prophet David O. McKay described meditation as the “most secret, most sacred door through which we pass into the presence of the Lord”...
In this episode, Riley and Christopher explore the promise to peacemakers in the Beatitude, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the...
In this episode, after Christopher read a couple of dozen books on the Bible in a couple of weeks and recorded a three-hour introduction...