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2019-12-24
Christmas Longing
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2019-12-19
Mary's "Yes!" to God
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2019-12-18
Strong Women: Profiles In Courage Know No Gender
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2019-12-18
Let's talk about race...with kids: who are you? (3 of 5)
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2019-12-14
More Than "Just Mercy," A Path to Healing Racial Trauma
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2019-12-13
Now is NOT The Time For A Blue Log Cabin-ish Democrat
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2019-12-13
When Hope & Pain Intermingle in Our Souls
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2019-12-10
Let's talk about race...with kids: books & television (2 of 5)
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2019-12-09
How Everything Isn’t Black & White — Except Some Biracial People
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2019-12-09
This Season, What to Give When You Have Nothing to GIve
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2019-12-07
Haley: ‘Reasonable’ Republican to Confederate Apologist?
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2019-12-06
Advent Darkness: It's Not the New Normal
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2019-11-29
To Gaggle, not Gobble
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2019-11-27
Up the Sunbeam to the Sun: from Gratitude to Adoration
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2019-11-22
Mid-Life Crisis - of Faith
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2019-11-15
Dear Rev. MacArthur, do you think I am just dazzled and muddled?
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2019-11-12
3 Questions We Must Stop Asking About Immigrants
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2019-11-12
Dark Faith
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2019-11-11
Prayer of the Heart: An Excerpt From '50 Ways To Pray'
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2019-11-07
Two Ways to Cultivate an Old Soul Faith
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2019-11-04
Gratitude for a Grievous Gift - Loving a Prodigal
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2019-11-02
Why We Should Learn to Love the Color Orange
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2019-10-29
(Cardboard) Mansions in my Father's House
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2019-10-26
Let's talk about race...with kids: engage now (1 of 5)
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2019-10-24
Relinquishment: Learning to Reframe Loss
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2019-10-21
Mary Coston Wise: A Lament
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2019-10-21
See ya, John MacArthur. We women aren't going home anytime soon.
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2019-10-19
Death, Enemies, and Garden Cleanup
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2019-10-17
Praying Down Gun Violence
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2019-10-15
To the Conversation!
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2019-10-13
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it
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2019-10-12
A Gardener's Religion
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2019-10-10
Indifference and Indifference
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2019-10-10
Sitting with a Choice: Discernment Through Ignatian Examen
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2019-10-08
When There Isn't a Better Benediction
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2019-10-06
To You Who Are Suffering
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2019-10-04
Choosing Life in the Midst of Online Connections
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2019-10-02
What Happens When Things Come Together
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2019-10-01
Kindness - On Earth, As It Is In Heaven
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2019-09-24
Finding "Slow" in a Bar at 7 AM
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2019-09-22
King Vitaman and the Hangups of Nostalgia
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2019-09-21
Right Here, Right Now
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2019-09-20
Three Prayers Of the Restless & Scattered
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2019-09-17
God's Failure to Act
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2019-09-17
#Me Too, Jesus
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2019-09-17
Ripping Off Book Covers So We Might See Our Stardust Selves
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2019-09-16
Prayer Exercise: Where Can We Find Faith In Media?
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2019-09-13
Is Pain a Window or a Mirror?
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2019-09-12
Faithful Pessimists, Aware Optimists
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2019-09-10
Permission Not Required
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2019-09-10
Rewriting and Renaming the Silence
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2019-09-07
What Happens In the Empty Space
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2019-09-07
Camp Out in the Land of Joy
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2019-09-07
The Grace of Unanticipated Routines
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2019-09-04
I Need The "Feminine" On The Spiritual Journey
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2019-09-04
Write Down
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2019-09-03
Responding To Tragedies: More Than Thoughts and Prayers
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2019-08-31
When Building Up Begins with Tearing Down
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2019-08-30
Just Stop Trying
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2019-08-30
Martha, Martha, Martha + New Meanings of Love
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2019-08-27
Why "Yes" Means "No"
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2019-08-27
Not Today, Satan! Black voters didn’t bring America to a cultural, social abyss
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2019-08-27
Recognizing All Those Present Lines, Says Mihee Kim-Kort
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2019-08-27
This Turning World: A Reflection on Hope for Hard Times
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2019-08-23
Effort To Primary Trump in 2020: What’s The Family Got To Do With It?
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2019-08-22
Breach-Repairers: Preaching Isaiah 58 Using Dialogical Lens
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2019-08-20
Beating Hearts, Pumping Blood Vessels & Glorious Stamps of Humanity
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2019-08-19
Forgetting our Mission: Mass Shootings and the Church
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2019-08-19
Remembrance Prayer: A Prayer Exercise from '50 Ways To Pray'
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2019-08-18
When God is Unnecessary
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2019-08-14
A Fiery, Divisive Jesus? Luke 12:49-56 with Dialogical Lens
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2019-08-13
Guess What? We're Invited and We Get to Invite, Says Leslie Verner
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2019-08-12
The Devil of LA and the Power of Our Desires
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2019-08-11
You Can't Leave the Past Behind
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2019-08-09
There’s No Proselytizing in Spiritual Direction
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2019-08-08
Stepping Into the Storm with Jesus
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2019-08-06
Truly, All Shall Be Well (Reminds Catherine McNiel)
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2019-08-03
When Our Grass Is In Order
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2019-08-03
Dialogical Lens for Preaching Luke 12:13-21, the Rich Fool
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2019-08-03
How to Love the Difficult Months
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2019-07-31
Applying the Dialogical Lens to the Parable of the Rich Fool
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2019-07-31
Using a 'Dialogical Lens' for Scripture and Preaching
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2019-07-30
A Novel of Searching for Peace Amidst the Memories? Sign Me Up, Shawn Smucker
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2019-07-29
Which God Are You Becoming?
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2019-07-25
3 Wise Conversations On Creativity, Pilgrimage, and Suffering
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2019-07-23
The Healing Superpowers of Friendship, Thanks to YA Author Mitali Perkins
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2019-07-22
Contemplation Exercise: Here I Am Prayer
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2019-07-22
Why Spiritual Formation Is Political
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2019-07-20
The Most Important Invitation
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2019-07-19
3 Spiritually Healthy Ways to Return From Vacation
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2019-07-16
Heather Day, Leading the Charge With Confessions of a Christian Wife
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2019-07-14
What You (Don't) Hear When Smelling Coffee
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2019-07-13
A Year of Coloring Outside the Lines
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2019-07-11
I Boast Therefore I Am: Christian Identity and Nationalism
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2019-07-11
Social Media Is Killing Us (See My Most Recent Tweet)
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2019-07-09
Rejection? You and Me, We Got This
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2019-07-06
Summer Religion
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2019-07-05
What If Jesus Wants You To Fall In Love?
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2019-07-02
Reflection Prayer: The Traditional Ignatian Examen
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2019-07-02
Swimming in Prophetic Whirlwinds, Courtesy of Onleilove Alston
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2019-07-01
Where To Take Our Restlessness
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2019-06-29
The Peace We Do Not Look For
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2019-06-28
10 Books to Hunker Down With This Summer
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2019-06-27
A Twitter Exchange And How Spiritual Formation Will Save the World
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2019-06-25
3 Things to Remember This Week
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2019-06-25
Yo, Women: We Get to Rise Up! (Thanks, Katey Zeh)
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2019-06-24
Selfie Spirituality, or the Dubitable Power of Telling My Story
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2019-06-21
When My Spinning Wheels Need a Break
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2019-06-19
Trinity Sunday and Event Horizons
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2019-06-19
What Gives You Life?
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2019-06-18
Social Media Marketing in Spiritual Direction - Use It, Lose It, or Abuse It
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2019-06-18
Urban Ministry Among the Poor? Finally, an Answer
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2019-06-14
When Coffee Mugs Are Sacred
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2019-06-13
Not So Much to Be Understood As to Understand
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2019-06-11
Finding God in the Throes of Young Parenthood (Bravo, Courtney Ellis!)
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2019-06-10
King David, David Lynch, and a Dragon Walk Into A Bar
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2019-06-08
Searching for Glory
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2019-06-07
The Star Wars Prayer: An Excerpt From '50 Ways To Pray'
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2019-06-06
We Become the Stories We Tell
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2019-06-04
To Delight & Wonder & Laugh With God! (Thanks Christine Sine)
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2019-06-03
Rural Decline? Why 30-49 Year-Olds are Going Rural
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2019-06-01
It is Time to Taste and See
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2019-06-01
3 Podcasts That Challenged Me This Month
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2019-05-30
When We Get Stuck (We Should Stay There)
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2019-05-29
Holiness Influencers
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2019-05-28
Breath Prayer: An Excerpt From '50 Ways To Pray'
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2019-05-28
Dissolving Words: Saying Goodbye to a Year in the Lectionary
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2019-05-28
How Does Conversation Transform the Church? Ask Chris Smith!
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2019-05-28
Why We Must Cultivate Memory Like Soil
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2019-05-22
Two Books For Learning to Love With Our Thinking
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2019-05-21
How many books must I write to feel special enough?
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2019-05-21
The High Price of Living Life in a Hurry
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2019-05-21
Oh, this God who SEES (Yes Indeed, Karen Gonzalez)
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2019-05-20
A Practice of Sleep (For Restless People)
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2019-05-19
Friends Are Good for Our Souls (Is Friendship A Sacrament?)
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2019-05-17
A Turn on the Mat: The Gift of Weakness in the Community of Faith
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2019-05-17
Alabama, Abortion, and the Hopeful Art of Listening
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2019-05-16
Everyone deserves the right to Equality
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2019-05-14
On Reading the Bible Literally (And Do Stop Signs Mean "Stop"?)
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2019-05-14
I want to write a book and be special
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2019-05-14
Don't Forget To Gather Your Harvest
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2019-05-14
We Can Act to Fight Racism (Reminds Andi Cumbo-Floyd)
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2019-05-10
The Beauty of this Choir (Thanks Again, RHE)
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2019-05-10
Wisdom Is For Losers
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2019-05-09
What Feels Like Praying?
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2019-05-07
Abundant Life Among the Tangled Weeds
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2019-05-07
Practicing the Presence in Gethsemane
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2019-05-06
How Rachel Held Evans Taught Me to Color Outside the Lines
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2019-05-04
The Case of Henri Nouwen, Rachel Held Evans, and Vincent Van Gogh
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2019-05-03
Do the Hustle, Do the Hustle. Not.
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2019-04-30
A Same Old (Never Gets Old) Easter
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2019-04-30
Random Thoughts on Knowledge, Wisdom, and John 8
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2019-04-30
Unmoored Christianity: 12 "Anchor" Questions
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2019-04-30
Doing the Next Right Thing (Thanks Emily Freeman)
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2019-04-27
Can You Hear the Song of the Trees?
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2019-04-27
Facing the 3 Types of Distractions from Prayer
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2019-04-26
Squeaking Ducks And The Wisdom of Noticing
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2019-04-24
Silent Harps, Shredded Vitas, and Spilled Chanel: A Sunday Sermon on the Spiritual Journey
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2019-04-24
I Gave Up Podcasts For Lent
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2019-04-24
Desire as a Doorway to God
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2019-04-23
Permission to Know We're Not Alone (Thanks, Alia Joy)
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2019-04-22
This Monday is Different
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2019-04-21
April Fool’s Day
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2019-04-19
The Struggle to Pray with a Reactive Mind in a Social Media Society
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2019-04-19
Ever Feel Like You're Learning to Believe who YOU Really Are?
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2019-04-18
It Snowed On Palm Sunday (and other mysteries)
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2019-04-16
Three Ways to Take the Cross to Heart During Holy Week
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2019-04-16
What You Need to Know About Spiritual Direction Training Programs
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2019-04-16
What You Need to Know About Spiritual Direction Training Programs
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2019-04-16
The Intersection of Calling & Closed Doors (Writes Ryan Pemberton)
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2019-04-13
We Aren't Waiting For Resurrection
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2019-04-12
A TripAdvisor for the Soul
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2019-04-12
Saying Sorry to Martial Arts Masters, Because, HALT.
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2019-04-11
Who's Your Spiritual Father or Mother?
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2019-04-11
Why No One Can Say: I’m Bad at Contemplative Prayer
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2019-04-11
Backstory and Blessings: You can't have one without the other
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2019-04-09
Hello, Easter, My Old Friend
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2019-04-09
The Call to Love Our Neighbors, Thanks to Alex Kuykendall
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2019-04-08
How to Make Room for the Wonder of God
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2019-04-07
Rich Mullins and the Wideness in God's Mercy
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2019-04-05
You Really Aren’t an Impostor
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2019-04-04
Lessons from a Labyrinth in Dublin
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2019-04-02
Practicing New Life in the Cruellest Month
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2019-04-02
To Live is to Lead, Says Roy Goble
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2019-04-01
Beauty-full Ashes
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2019-03-30
The Practice of Watering Dry Bones
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2019-03-29
How Not to Introduce a Speaker, Regardless of Gender
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2019-03-29
Spring and Gift
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2019-03-28
A Bit About My Upcoming Book "As I Recall"
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2019-03-26
A Feast in the Desert
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2019-03-26
Making a Living off Spiritual Direction
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2019-03-26
Hearing the Songs of the Trees, Courtesy of Christie Purifoy
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2019-03-25
The Spiritual Gift of Reading Aloud
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2019-03-23
A Practice for Saturday Soul Work
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2019-03-22
Are you an Oregonian?
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2019-03-21
Thoughts on My 3 Most Recent Readings
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2019-03-20
Weakness At Its Most Wondrous: Strength
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2019-03-19
Pursuing Less This Lent
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2019-03-19
Because Social Justice IS for All of Us, or so Lisa Van Engen Reminds Us
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2019-03-18
Pilgrimage, Lent, and Giving Up Words
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2019-03-16
Don't Seize the Day (Let the Day Seize You)
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2019-03-15
Creative Work Needs Spirit(s)
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2019-03-15
Who are You at the End of the Day?
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2019-03-12
Spiritual Direction in the Current Christian Climate
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2019-03-12
Let Her Lead: Welcoming Women as Leaders in the Church
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2019-03-12
Because We Are All Placemakers
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2019-03-11
Distraction is Coming For Us All
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2019-03-11
Which Kind of Anxious Christian Are You?
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2019-03-09
Practicing Spring While It's Still Winter
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2019-03-07
The Radical Way of Noticing
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2019-03-06
What Do You Lose When You Surrender to God?
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2019-03-06
A Spirituality of Dust and Ashes
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2019-03-05
Drawing Near to Broken Things (Lent for Placemakers)
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2019-03-05
Carolina Hinojosa-Cisneros, Carrier of Story
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2019-03-04
When Tenderness Finds Us
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2019-03-03
Into the Bizarre: Transfiguring the Last Week of Ordinary Time
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2019-03-02
Leaning in to the Ache of Waiting
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2019-03-02
Finding Time to Pray vs. Time for Facebook
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2019-03-01
When It Happens To Us
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2019-03-01
How to Make Ash for Ash Wednesday
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2019-03-01
When Poems Speak Love, So Says Shann Ray
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2019-02-26
Why I Wrote a Book About Trees
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2019-02-26
The Protest of Those Who Hope, Alongside Public School Strikes
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2019-02-25
Making a Beautiful Mess of the Bible
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2019-02-25
The Way Of Jesus Includes Your Drink Order
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2019-02-24
Writing Tips: Do What Works
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2019-02-23
Why I Sort Of Hate That Famous Poem
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2019-02-22
A Pile of Dead Animal Bones and a Brain Tumor
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2019-02-21
Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 3: It Takes Practice
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2019-02-21
Contemplation Versus the Lizard
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2019-02-19
Oh, that Holy Lament, Courtesy of Aubrey Sampson
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2019-02-19
Why Moving Forward Requires Turning Back
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2019-02-19
The Grace of a Day
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2019-02-17
When Church Doesn't Nourish: Leaving Church in Ordinary Time
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2019-02-16
Finding Hope in Life's Bare Soil
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2019-02-14
Faith Is In The Feelings
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2019-02-12
Today, I Look For God In My Rage
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2019-02-12
Why We Should Pray For Snow on a Snow Day
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2019-02-12
Chewing on Prayer, Thanks to Justin McRoberts
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2019-02-11
Prayer Trains Us to Be Present for God Within Us
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2019-02-11
A Wolverine Flew into my Chest and Saved my Life and Faith
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2019-02-10
Following Jesus In a Bar: Ordinary Discipleship, Ordinary Time
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2019-02-09
How to Embrace a Sick Day
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2019-02-08
Why Christians Need Tidying Up
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2019-02-08
Is Your Job Your Vocation?
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2019-02-06
Can We Have a Conversation? (The Color of Life)
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2019-02-05
Practicing Subtraction (In a World That Loves Addition)
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2019-02-05
Notes About Others On The Highway
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2019-02-04
The otherWISE Podcast RETURNS!
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2019-02-03
The Topsy-Turvy Shalom of Christ: Absurd Discipleship in Ordinary Time
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2019-02-02
A Couple of Hopes (The Color of Life)
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2019-02-02
Why the Middle is the Sweet Spot
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2019-02-02
Should Our Spiritual Practices “Spark Joy“?
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2019-01-29
The Wisdom of 50 Below Zero
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2019-01-29
Uncluttering Everywhere, Thanks to Courtney Ellis
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2019-01-29
The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention
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2019-01-26
Joy In Work (And Work In Joy): Third Sunday After Epiphany
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2019-01-26
Let's Practice Procrastination
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2019-01-26
Choosing Subversive Joy & Indefatigable Faith (The Color of Life)
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2019-01-25
Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 2: It’s Counterintuitive
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2019-01-24
Coffee Cup Spirituality
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2019-01-24
The Sacrament of Filing One's Nails
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2019-01-22
Why Don’t It Make You Feel Guilty, Gladys?
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2019-01-22
My Favorite Things For January
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2019-01-22
Latinas in Leadership, as Penned by Kristy Robinson
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2019-01-21
Formed by a Dream (Some Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.)
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2019-01-20
3 Quotes That'll Make You Think (The Color of Life)
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2019-01-20
Water Into Wine: Grace in the Season of Epiphany
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2019-01-19
The Quiet Promise Of This New Year
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2019-01-17
To Feel Again: The Tedium of Surviving
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2019-01-17
The Holy Art of Sleeping
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2019-01-17
Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 1: Mission (Yes, Really)
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2019-01-17
4 Daily Mantras Driving My Formation This Year
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2019-01-15
Grace Can't Be Tamed
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2019-01-15
Listening So We Can Live, With Cari Jenkins
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2019-01-14
What Keeps Us from Praying? Part Five: Finding Time to Pray
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2019-01-13
Unconditional Love and Loving Thy Neighbor: The Baptism of Jesus
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2019-01-12
31 Diverse Children's Books (The Color of Life)
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2019-01-11
Can Your Phone Help or Hinder Prayer?
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2019-01-10
Idealizing and Disparaging Rural America
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2019-01-10
The Stories that Change Us (The Color of Life)
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2019-01-10
Everyone Has a Guru
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2019-01-09
Works Without Faith Can be Deadening, Too
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2019-01-08
To Know What We're Talking About
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2019-01-06
Stargazing for Jesus: Joy and Justice on Epiphany
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2019-01-05
12 Books That Helped Me Color Outside the Lines in 2018
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2019-01-05
What's Your Calling in the New Year?
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2019-01-04
What I'm Reading (And Why That Matters)
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2019-01-03
How Silence Can Help You Speak Up This Year
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2019-01-03
Ecclesiastes and Compost: A Liturgy for a New Year
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2019-01-01
4 Intentional Steps Toward 2019 (Part Two)