Solitude

Our culture rewards the sharpest take, but two spiritual practices can help Christians show up better in the public sphere.

What silence and solitude do to the soul.

Pursue joy and presence in your ministry.

Chosen by Andrew Arndt, author of “Streams in the Wasteland: Finding Spiritual Renewal with the Desert Fathers and Mothers.”

In solitude, we turn our face toward God who so loves this world.

Serving the God ‘who sees in secret’ in a world where there’s pressure to post everything.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s departure from ‘The Atlantic’ reflects a growing crisis: Our digital age inhibits reliable and enduring insight.

In God there is no darkness, but in the darkness of the South Pole I found God everywhere.

How fear of missing out fuels our overextended lives, and why the South Pole holds clues to the solution.

The most joyful noise God desires from us may be none at all.