Study

The letter the five points were mined from, read whole — sixteen chapters, each with its key verse, Karl Barth at the desk, discussion questions, and a cloud of witnesses; printable one chapter to a page. A companion within the TULIP study.

Sixteen verses on treasure, the single eye, mammon and anxiety, taken word by word in the Greek — with Evagrius, Chrysostom, Augustine, Calvin, Wesley, Bonhoeffer, Merton and Willard at the desk, and five questions answered plainly: what the verb behind “do not worry” actually forbids, whether the body is inside it, and what the kingdom turns out to be.

A distillation and indexing of everything Jesus himself said — the kingdom announced, the commands, parables, warnings & promises — heard on their own terms, without bringing in Pauline interpretations.

A study of the coming Kingdom of God and what the Bible wants us to know — the prophets’ hope, the already & not-yet, the resurrection of the body, and the renewal of all things.

Saints, elders, and spiritual teachers as particular companions in the way of Jesus. Begin with Francis of Assisi and with Dorotheus of Gaza’s Desert Fathers collection: lives, writings, practices, and complete texts.

The contemplative tradition read first-hand rather than through its modern interpreters — whole texts, set to be actually read. On the shelf: Dionysius’s Mystical Theology and Gregory of Nyssa’s Homilies on Ecclesiastes, complete, a chapter to a page.

The month-long retreat a wounded Basque soldier wrote at Manresa and spent twenty-five years revising — complete in Elder Mullan’s 1914 English from the Spanish autograph. All four Weeks, the Annotations, the fifty-one Mysteries, and every set of Rules, unabridged. No commentary, no verdict: the text, whole.

The rules that shape a community’s prayer, work, possessions, and life together. Begin with the Franciscan Order: the approved rule still professed today and the surviving earlier rule of Francis of Assisi.

Walk through the church’s year across traditions. Begin with Advent and Christmas 2026: the fasts, the four Sundays, the Nativity, and the January feasts in Eastern Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant life.

Twelve forks in the church’s long road — authority, grace, the table, the water, the saints — each side stated at its strongest. Answer all twelve and be named a tradition, from Rome and the East to Wittenberg, Geneva, and Azusa Street. No verdicts; your answers stay in your browser.