The Lectio Letter

By Liam Byrnes

A Fortnightly newsletter with links, music, recipes and one article from me focussed on Christian formation, Theology and Discipleship

Previous issues

The Lectio Letter - Issue 34 - Will the Conservatives or Progressives Save the West?

#34 Sep 13, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #33 - Why is it better for Jesus to leave?

#33 Aug 23, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #32 - The Strength of Gentleness

#32 Jul 22, 2021

#31

Jul 6, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #31 - The Anger of Jesus – “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be
#30

Jun 15, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #30 – “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”— Mark Twain
#29

May 15, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #29 - What kind of smoke fills the temple – “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any oth
#28

Apr 12, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #28 - The God who asks Questions – "Answers before questions do damage to the soul." – Henri Nouwen
#27

Mar 21, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #27 - Will the Real Christianity Please Stand Up? – “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c
#26

Mar 3, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #26 - God is Love, but isn’t He also Holy? – Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes fo
#25

Feb 16, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #25 - The Problem of a bottom-up God – "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." —Joseph Addison
#24

Jan 27, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #24 - "To Hell with Hustle" – "Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of o
#23

Jan 11, 2021

The Lectio Letter - Issue #23 - All the books I read in 2020 reviewed – Books... are like lobster shells,we surround ourselves with 'em,then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em
#22

Dec 24, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #22 - You Are Not What You Do | Part II - The Three Callings – “A book, too, can be a star,a living fire to lighten the darkness,leading out into the expanding univ
#21

Dec 15, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #21 - Why are we waiting? | Advent 2020 – "The twofold mystery of Christmas is that God became one of us so that we might become one with Him."
#20

Dec 5, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #20 - You are not what you do – "If you don't come away for a while, you will come apart after a while." - Dallas WillardWelcome to I
#19

Nov 12, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #19 - Without Knowledge of Self there is No Knowledge of God – The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. —Mark Twain
#18

Nov 2, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #18 - Real learning is not safe – An authentic spirituality of education will address the fear that so often permeates and destroys tea
#17

Oct 5, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #17 - A Call to depth through engaging the terrifying T-Word, THEOLOGY – “Think before you speak. Read before you think.”― Fran LebowitzWelcome to Issue #17 of the Lectio Let
#16

Sep 11, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #16 - Heaven is great..but it's not the end of the World – “We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.”
#15

Aug 21, 2020

The Lectio Letter - Issue #15 - How I taught a dog to catch and he taught me to love | The Spirituality of Canine Companionship – Welcome to a Bumper Issue, #15 of the Lectio Letter. This members-only newsletter is filled with sugg

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