Join theIn a world governed by speed, productivity, and distraction, many Christians (us!) long for something steadier—a way of prayer that can hold the whole of life. We rush to work, share coffee with friends, collapse into bed at day’s end, and hope, somehow, to sense God’s presence in it all. Yet prayer can often feel elusive, as though God were distant rather than near.

In this live conversation, Julie Lane-Gay will reflect on her award-winning book The Riches of Your Grace: Living in the Book of Common Prayer and will invite us into a deeper way of inhabiting time, prayer, and grace through the Book of Common Prayer. Rather than offering a history or technical guide, Lane-Gay will share how the Prayer Book quietly forms us—shaping our hearts, ordering our days, and anchoring ordinary Christian life in Christ.

Drawing on personal stories, insight, and lived practice (which she writes about ever so beautifully), Julie will explore how liturgical prayer resists cultural hurry, re-forms our desires, and roots us in God’s larger story. Along the way, the conversation will touch on formation, community, catechesis, the church calendar, and why praying with the Church—across time and place—matters now more than ever.

Hosted by Radix editor Matthew Steem, this event will feature Julie Lane-Gay in conversation about a way of prayer that is slow, communal, and profoundly hopeful. As always, there will also be plenty of time for you—our live audience—to ask your own thoughtful and important questions.

Julie Lane-Gay is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Reader’s Digest, Fine Gardening, Faith Today, Anglican Planet, and The Englewood Review of Books. She teaches occasional courses at Regent College and serves as editor of the college’s journal, CRUX. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her husband, Craig, and is active in her local Anglican church.