Lectio Divina: Revelation and prophecy

By Barbara Birch

by Daniel Clarke Flynn 7th February 2025

Barbara Birch grew up in the mainstream Evangelical Lutheran Church of America in the 1950s, but left in her teenage years. She went on to write or edit multidisciplinary books such as Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching. She found Quakers in 1985. Among Friends, she was inspired to research the Bible that she didn’t understand in her youth. She began to practise sacred reading and writing using Thomas Kelly’s essay ‘The Light Within,’ from his book A Testament of Devotion.