Jonathan R. Bailey

@kaelinveyne Thank you so much! Appreciate it.

@jonathanrbailey The cover looks great!

After ten years in the making, my book finally has a cover! I'm so grateful for the cover and the way it conveys its contents! I wrote more about this here: threeweeklylights.com/p/cover-reveal… You can find the pre-order link in my bio!

What does our imagination and poetry have to do with our spiritual formation? 🎙️ In this episode of The Digital Examen, Jay Y. Kim welcomes author, poet, priest, and musician Dr. Malcolm Guite to explore how our imagination is not a creative extra, but a truth-telling faculty that helps us apprehend meaning in a world saturated with data and yet hungry for substance. Listen now on your favorite podcast platform!

There’s a danger when theology comes before spirituality. Right ideas can end up hurting people when they’re cut off from the living Christ. On Living Before Learning, an Insight from Rowan Williams, and What Practice Teaches threeweeklylights.com/p/on-living-be…

Feelings rise and fall, but they don’t define the depth of our life with Jesus. What matters more is the return. On Inner Waves, Wisdom from Sergius Bulgakov, and Trust Beyond Feelings threeweeklylights.com/p/on-inner-wav…

In the early days of my spiritual transformation, I was grasping for growth faster than I could keep up. What surprised me most was not the rushing, but the quiet grace of finally recognizing it. On Premature Grasping, a Counsel from Francis de Sales, and the Grace of Noticing threeweeklylights.com/p/on-premature…

There’s a practice I’ve returned to for twenty years. It isn’t dramatic, but it has helped me so much. The practice is simple: getting up early. On Early Rising, a Counsel from Fénelon, and Unhurried Time threeweeklylights.com/p/on-early-ris…

Today we remember Fred Rogers and a life devoted to kindness, compassion, and care for children. Though he passed on February 27, 2003, his lessons continue to guide and comfort us every day. #FredRogers A photo from the Lynn Johnson Collection, Ohio University Libraries.

Journey with us toward Easter through our Lent devotional, Return. Each day in Return includes a Scripture reading, a short devotional reflection, practical application, and a prayer for the week. Start today with Psalm 32 and step into the joy of forgiveness.

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Hunger is not only in the body, but in the soul. Fasting teaches me to say “no” to self-centeredness so that my “yes” to God becomes more whole. threeweeklylights.com/p/008-on-fasti…

For a long time, I imagined incarnation as something God did and then finished. Now I’m learning to see it as a life shared — Emmanuel, God with us, a friendship that never ends. threeweeklylights.com/p/on-incarnati…

Transformation doesn’t come from chasing the extraordinary, but from attending to the ordinary, again and again. Breath has become that teacher for me. threeweeklylights.com/p/on-breath-a-…

Faith doesn’t always clear things up. Sometimes it teaches us how to move forward without certainty. threeweeklylights.com/p/on-trust-a-w…

I didn’t need to understand the path to be walking it. The knowing came later, drawing me into a rhythm not to achieve more, but to receive more. threeweeklylights.com/p/on-spiritual…

For tonight's spell in the library you find me in the midst of recording the audiobook for Galahad and the Grail! youtu.be/qwMrIQcpm0k

So the nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality. —Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World, 60.

I wrote about my soul as a wasteland—wandering, wondering, waiting, without knowing how long. These days I’m trying not to rush the wondering toward something more certain. From Three Weekly Lights: On Wandering, a Counsel from Abbot Chapman, and Enduring the Desert threeweeklylights.com/p/on-wandering…

@fortelabs I feel #4 is the strongest because it visually communicates “reviewing.” But I wouldn’t settle for it unless the publisher makes you. Use it as the next jumping off point for iteration. The next round could be the one.

I'd really appreciate your feedback on the new round of cover designs for my next book 🙏 Which one do you like the most? Dislike the most? And most importantly, why?

I'm pleased to see that @canterburypress already have a page up for pre-ordering my Galahad and the Grail ahead of its publication in March! canterburypress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/97817862…