Renovare

Articles

Featured Authors

Blurred Sunset Heaven and Earth

Prophets and Poets

Luci Shaw believes poets, especially poets of faith, should cultivate the gift of perception and awareness in order to help illuminate invisible realities.
Luci Shaw
Luci Shaw
April 22, 2021
Sheep in a hurry

A Hurry-Free Life

Does ​“relentlessly eliminate hurry” mean embracing an inefficient life? Carolyn Arends explores if it is possible to work quickly without being in a hurry.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
March 23, 2021
Mountain Hiker

The Cure for Distraction

In 1978, Richard Foster wrote, ​“Superficiality is the curse of our age.” More than forty years later, it feels as relevant as ever. Yet, the reigning curse that threatens the growth of our souls has a new challenger — distraction.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
March 19, 2021
Mother and newborn

Sustenance Cannot Be Rushed

Building on Dallas Willard’s timeless advice to ​“ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life,” Renovaré Institute alumnus Avo Adourian looks at the ways God’s sustenance will not be rushed.
Avo Adourian
Avo Adourian
March 17, 2021
Rain on glass

Stoicism Isn’t Spiritual

After her mom passed, Carolyn Arends found herself in what seemed like a disproportionate amount of pain. ​“People go through much harder things than this,” she told her counselor, ​“but here I am, undone.” She shares her journey of learning how to grieve.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
March 11, 2021
Man walking through red canyon

Passing Through the Stage Normally Called ​“Death”

What exactly happens when we die? Dallas Willard offers a vision of hope and beauty of our life in the age to come.
Dallas Willard
Dallas Willard
March 5, 2021
Black sand beach

God’s Love Is Higher Even Than My Sins

John Wesley takes sin seriously and here distinguishes between different kinds. The goal is not shame or perfectionism, but to point us toward freedom in Christ and to help us recognize that the choices we make matter.
John Wesley Richard J. Foster
John Wesley & Richard J. Foster
February 19, 2021
Old piano 2

Songs In The Key of Life

In this letter to his congregation, Pastor Eric Peterson reflects, ​“Jesus didn’t come to deliver us from our humanity and its accompanying heartaches, but to join us in it all (the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly).”
Eric E. Peterson
Eric E. Peterson
February 10, 2021
Eugene peterson

Letter to a Young Pastor

“I wonder if one of the greatest things that a pastor can do,” writes Eugene Peterson to his son Eric, ​“is to treat men and women with simple dignity.” This letter is one of many exchanged between father and son, two pastors working out how to best care for the people of God.
Eugene H. Peterson
Eugene H. Peterson
February 10, 2021
Crafting

Creativity in the Chaos

When COVID-19 began, Carolyn Arends noticed something weird: people were crafting. They responded to chaos with cosmos. And regardless of our artistic ability, all of us are made in the image of the Creator and instilled with a desire to create order and beauty.
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
February 5, 2021