Ideas are great, but resisting the secular slide requires new practices and rhythms to aim our lives at God’s Kingdom. Get some ideas here.

The goal here is to inspire short and simple thoughtful practices (praxis) whether for individuals or communities, that fit into daily or weekly rhythms, to create a stronger community that resists secularism and seeks God in the everyday (e.g. prayer, fasting, service, practical experiments). Whilst there is much more on offer in Malyon College’s Theology of Everyday Life course, here are some key books to start your journey of reforming your daily rhythms…

• Practicing Our Faith website and book by Dorothy Bass
• Desiring the Kingdom by James K. A. Smith
• The Hare and the Tortoise by Andrew Shamy, Sam Bloore, and Roshan Allpress
• The Vertical Self by Mark Sayers
• Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster
• Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard
• The Life You’ve Always Wanted by John Ortberg
• Spiritual Disciplines Handbook by Adele Calhoun
• Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Practicing the Way of Jesus: Life Together in the Kingdom of Love by Mark Scandrette
• Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People by Dorothy Bass
• New Monasticism: What it has to say to today’s Church by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
• School(s) for Conversation: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism by Rutba House
• Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and Enuma Oroko
• The Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne (www.thesimpleway.org)
• Barefoot Church: Serving the Least in a Consumer Culture by Brandon Hatmaker
• The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
• Living Faithfully in a Fragmented World: From ‘After Virtue’ to a New Monasticism by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove