‘Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart.’-Je 15:16 Jeremiah, the prophet whose feast we commemorate this week in the Armenian Church and whose words I began with, recommends we consume the books of the Bible again and again. ‘Your words…
Our modern avoidance of silence surely does all kinds of bad things to intimacy between partners, to people’s mental health and young people’s development, but perhaps its greatest ill effect is on our spiritual development. Because all old Christian traditions, including ours, have always maintained the key role silence plays in our spiritual development. Its…