{"id":11355,"date":"2025-06-23T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=11355"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:48:05","slug":"issue-36-devotion-in-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/issue-36-devotion-in-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 36: Devotion in Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Call for Submissions
Fare Forward\u00a0<\/em>Issue 36
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In the first chapter of his 2016 book You Are What You Love<\/em>, James K.A. Smith writes, \u201cDiscipleship is more a matter of hungering and thirsting than of knowing and believing. Jesus\u2019s command to follow him is a command to align our loves and longings with his\u2014to want what God wants, to desire what God desires, to hunger and thirst after God and crave a world where he is all in all\u2014a vision encapsulated by the shorthand \u2018the kingdom of God.\u2019\u201d Across varied Christian traditions, adherents of Jesus Christ are more-or-less encouraged to know about God\u2014but pretty much always enjoined to love <\/em>God. Jesus himself, in the Gospels that record his life, calls \u201cLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind\u201d \u201cthe first and greatest commandment.\u201d The next one has to do with love, too: \u201cLove your neighbor as yourself.\u201d<\/p>

But what does that mean? And how does one go about doing <\/em>it? These questions have been asked by Christians for hundreds of years, and in response to them have grown up the many variations of devotional practices\u2014things that people do in order to become the sort of person who loves God. For this issue of Fare Forward<\/em>, we want to explore what people do (and have done) externally in order to facilitate this kind of massive internal change.<\/p>

We\u2019re asking questions like these:<\/p>

  • What is the relationship between individual and corporate\/group devotional practices?<\/li>
  • What effect have new technologies had on how people practice devotion? Is that for the good? No? Neutral?<\/li>
  • What traditional devotional practices do people still use today?<\/li>
  • What are unusual or unexpected devotional practices that have shaped your faith?<\/li>
  • Do devotional practices have to be purely \u201cspiritual\u201d? What role does the physical body and world play in the practice of devotion?<\/li>
  • What role does repetitive or ecstatic prayer (i.e., praying the rosary, or the Jesus Prayer) have in transforming the heart?<\/li>
  • Why do some extremely devout people experience was is called \u201cthe dark night of the soul\u201d? What should we conclude when God doesn\u2019t seem to answer us?<\/li>
  • Do you have any experience (positive or negative) with texts written for the purpose of daily devotion (i.e., My Utmost for His Highest<\/em>, Jesus Calling<\/em>, etc.)?<\/li>
  • What role does creativity play in the practice of devotion? (i.e., writing, reading creative works, singing in a choir or congregation, etc.?)<\/li><\/ul>

    Please consider these examples a starting point, not a limit.<\/p>

    (Editorial Note: While Fare Forward<\/em> is a Christian journal, we strive to practice \u201ceditorial hospitality,\u201d by which we mean that anyone, of any or no faith background, can pick up a copy of our journal and feel that it is written for them. So don\u2019t choose a topic that\u2019s \u201cintramural\u201d\u2014i.e., only of interest to other Christians. And as you write, don\u2019t assume your reader is familiar with either Christianity as a whole or with any faith tradition in specific. That doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t talk about the specifics, just that you\u2019ll need to briefly explain them so the intelligent reader can catch on.)<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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