Faith Web Links

On-Line Helps :

• On-Line Ministries and Helps
• Other Resources
• Web Link Sites
• Link Sites for Non-English Languages

Movements :

• Renewal,
• Cursillo,
• Environmental,
• Justice,
• Twelve-Step,
• Postmodernism

Other Links :

• Arts
• Family
• Prayer
• Fun
• Spiritual Writers
• ancient Christian leaders
• Faith Education
• Churches and Fellowships of Note

These sites give an in-depth look at a devotional practice or a way of looking at all such practices. Feel free to do it, to let go, to return, to do differently in a way that grows from a growing understanding of what God wants of you.

• Bitter Journey, a multimedia version of the stations of the cross
• Centering Prayer, the methods taught by Fr. Thomas Keating.
• Ken Collins' Daily Lectionary
• prayer in congregations.
• Credenda
• the devotional Daily Texts.
• Devotionals.net, links to sites and mailing lists for daily devotionals.
• Dynamic Prayer, the Alpha folks' new prayer initiative.
• ePrayerNet (they take prayer requests and get real pray-ers to pray on them)
• Forward Movement Publications, an Anglican/Episcopal publisher.
• A resource site on 'sacred reading' and the Lectio Divina practices.
• an article on Intercessory Prayer
• The Quiet Gardens, a movement to create physical space for devotional use.
• Wayne Tow and Lutheran Prayer Ministries' prayer resources.
• the Oremus prayer and devotional resources
• John Veltri's Orientations for Spiritual Growth
• Paschal Triduum, a devotional resource for the Easter period.
• a useful page on the theology and thought about prayer
• Richard Foster and Renovare, a group fostering spiritual disciplines and spiritual life.
• Sacred Space, a prayer guidance site by Jesuits in Ireland.
• The Simple Things, shared by Sandy.
• Donald Whitney's Spiritual Disciplines site.
• 24-7 Prayer vigils movement, and the related Boiler Rooms approach to prayer.
• Under The Juniper Tree, a nice place to visit.
• Upper Room, with a Methodist-rooted spirituality.
• Net Ministries' Web Devotionals index of daily, weekly, and net-audio devotionals.
• World Wide Web Source on Prayer, mostly from the Catholic tradition but with lots of useful stuff.

• the Catholic Liturgical Library
• Lift Up Your Hearts worship resources, from Canadian Lutherans
• Universalis' online helps for the Liturgy of the Hours, which is prayed throughout the day as a worship discipline by priests and those in Catholic orders.
• Worship Resource Center. Its Links page is an enormous resource for 'contemporary', 'praise', and 'new-breed pentecostal' worship.

These sites are references, archives, or articles on various religious traditions. A spirituality that's not rooted in a particular tradition usually, slowly starts to take on the look of ones' self. It will fail you because, despite what so many of today's spiritual pundits are telling you, you are not God. A tradition can get you to look beyond yourselves and your era, into something much bigger. Or, it can get you to focus on superficial things so you don't bother to oppose those who do injustice. It will not become only what you want of it; it can sound as if it does, if you choose to stop listening.

• the Aish.com Jewish spirituality site.
• Bas Ayin: A Journal of Jewish Spirituality
• the Carmina Gadelica Celtic prayers
• Celtic Christianity pages
• Celtic Horizons, one of the easiest-to-understand of the Celtic Christian sites
• Christian History Institute
• an archive of topical snippets of the Desert Fathers (Orthodox)
• An Eastern Orthodox view of Celtic Christianity
• Eastern Orthodox monasticism.
• Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh's Kabbalah resources
• Library On Religious Movements
• Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, a Chasidic Jewish leader
• The Orthodox Faith: Spirituality
• Sufism, an open and spiritualistic branch of Islam. There are Sufi Web resources, too. Most interesting is one of their greatest poets, Jalaluddin Rumi, and the Mehlevi Order.
• About.com has a good site for mainstream Islam.

The way I see history, it has ebb and flow, direction and purpose, beginning and end, cycles and breaks. It repeats, but never in the same way. It tells stories - sometimes lies, sometimes great truths, but always a great story somewhere in there.

• Azusa Street and William J Seymour, some info on the 1906 Azusa Street Revival
• Bible History.com
• The Christian Catacombs of Rome, with a feature article on the Spirituality of the Catacombs (from the Salesian Institute in Rome)
• Christian History Institute
• Dictionary of African Christian Biography
• Hall of Church History site
• The Lausanne Covenant, a ground-breaking worldwide Evangelical statement. Also in Chinese , Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, and Spanish.
• Margaret MacDonald's rapture vision
• Richard Riss' history of the Toronto Blessing (biased 'for')
• the Society for Pentecostalist Studies
• The Origins of the Pentecostal Movement by Vinson Synan (a major reference source on Pentecostalism, by one of its most important historians)
• A site on the Welsh Revival of 1904.
• Bruce Janz' Who's Who in the History of Mysticism