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The current interest in spiritual formation is part fad and part timeless. How much staying power do you think it has?

Foster: We don't know yet whether people are going to take this seriously enough to where it really sinks down into the deep habit structures of life. You can't hope to accomplish in 40 days what it takes 40 years to do. There has to be a willingness for barren day after barren day after barren day, a willingness for new forms of worship, new forms of living.

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Foster and Willard on the Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible

More information about Renovare, including an invitation to sign its covenant, as well as further readings, is available from their website.

The Renovare Spiritual Formation Bible is available from Christianbook.com and other book retailers.

CT reviews of Willard's and Foster's books include:

In His Steps | How to Become an Apprentice of Jesus. A review of The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard. (1999)

Celebration of Traditions | Richard Foster wants Christians to be renewed by encountering the church's "living streams." A review of Streams of Living Water by Richard Foster. (May 24, 1999)

More on spiritual formation includes:

Christian History Corner
Got Your 'Spiritual Director' Yet? | The roots of a resurgent practice, plus 14 books for further study. (May 20, 2003)

Three Temptations of Spiritual Formation | When seeking to be shaped by Christ, It is all too easy to veer from a fully Christian approach. (Dec. 13, 2002)

Making Space for God | What spiritual direction is, and why evangelicals are increasingly attracted to it. An interview with Holy Invitations author Jeannette Bakke. (April 25, 2001)

Dallas Willard is author of a: Gray Matter and the Soul | What is the difference between the brain and the soul? (Nov. 15, 2002)

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October 2005, Vol. 49, No. 10