The Bible commands meditation more than 50 times, but most Christians grow up never being taught what it means. If you’ve ever read “meditate on it day and night” (Joshua 1:8) and wondered what your tradition was supposed to be teaching you that it never did, you’ve felt something true. I trace how the discipline got lost—honestly, not contemptuously—from Luther, Calvin, and the English Puritans to the overcorrections that buried it, and how we get it back.
Start Here: Intro to Christian Meditation · Video 1 · 12 min
Why Most Christians Were Never Taught Biblical Meditation
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What's Covered
- Luther, Calvin, and the Puritans (Hall, Baxter, Owen) on meditation
- How the discipline got buried after the Reformation
- Where contemporary contemplative renewal overcorrected
- Why this channel exists to recover what was always yours
Chapters
Read Alongside
- Three Words for Meditation—the lexical case, in writing
- What Is Christian Meditation—the full written treatment
