Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

“Preamble,” A Rule of Life for Redemptive Entrepreneurs, https://rule.praxislabs.org/​preamble. See the Rule Andy and others developed for Praxis: https://rule.praxislabs.org.

See Tim Keller’s accessible and incredibly helpful overview of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? in the article “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory,” Life in the Gospel. Dr. Keller, you are deeply missed.

To hear my wife T’s story, listen to the podcast we did together: “Fasting 02: To Grow in Holiness” on the Rule of Life podcast from Practicing the Way.

A discipline is any activity I can do by direct effort that will eventually enable me to do what I currently cannot do by direct effort.

Too little, too slow, and we atrophy, falling into a lethargic, self-centered fugue—what the ancients called “acedia,” or sloth, nicknamed by the monks “the noonday demon.”

One of the best ways to do that is, as an Ignatian scholar put it to me, to “pay attention to your jealousy.” He meant that playfully, as in: Pay attention when you see a feature of another person’s life and think, I wish my life was like that. Then craft a Rule to move in that direction.

In “this twittering world” of the digital age, it’s easier than ever to be “distracted from distraction by distraction,” as T. S. Eliot once said.

Stephen Covey once said, “We achieve inner peace when our schedule aligns with our values.” Because our schedules are so often not aligned with our values, many of us live with this electric current of anxiety pulsing through our nervous systems all the time; it’s just there, nagging at us and draining our energy reserves.

Saint Seraphim of Sarov once said, “Acquire inner peace and thousands around you will find their salvation.”