I was rereading a passage from one of my favorite books, The Cloister Walk, by Kathleen Norris. I know I have read that passage, but somehow it had not jumped out at me like it did this time. Norris says, “I have become convinced that hospitality is at the center of the Christian faith---the bread of the Eucharist is called the ‘host’ after all, and for good reason.” I will confess that I have an abiding interest in the theme of hospitality. So it is not surprising that this sentence appeals to me. When I hit a sentence like this one, I want to stop and spend some time with it. This is the kind of reading that characterizes spirituality. So often we read simply to get content---perhaps to gain knowledge. But we don’t often take time simply to ponder what we read. Spiritual reading is not always about getting knowledge. I like to say that spiritual...