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Finding Freedom in Solitude and Silence

Richard Foster explains how solitude and silence liberate us from fears and compulsions so that we are free to love as Jesus loves.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured November 11, 2025 (Original Nov 2025 )
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A Voice to Guide Us

In the introduction to Let God, Winn Collier writes, “Many of us long for a wise elder voice to provide us with spiritual direction... If we will listen to Fénelon, we will find much of what we seek.”
Winn Collier
Winn Collier
Featured October 31, 2025 (Original Jan 2007 )
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Sinking into the Will of God

François Fénelon offers insight into what it means to truly surrender to God. He advises caution, lest we make submission an achievement, rather than a journey toward the peace of sinking into God’s will.
François Fénelon
François Fénelon
Featured October 31, 2025 (Original Nov 2025 )
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Venemous Envy

“I used to pretend I wasn’t an envious person,” writes Grace Hamman in this excerpt from her new book, Ask of Old Paths.
Grace Hamman
Grace Hamman
Featured October 23, 2025 (Original Oct 2025 )
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The Gnawing Worm of Jealousy

Cyprian of Carthage compares jealousy to an insidious worm eating away at the human soul and urges disciples of Christ to let “the sweetness of Christ” replace all envy.
Cyprian of Carthage
Cyprian of Carthage
Featured October 23, 2025 (Original Nov 2025 )
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The Model of a Virtuous Life

In this excerpt from Richard Foster’s Streams of Living Water, a biographical sketch of Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers an example of the Holiness Tradition and a balanced with-God life.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured October 16, 2025 (Original Mar 1999 )
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Reform our Deformed Lives

A prayer by Walter Brueggemann seeks God’s grace to “reform our deformed lives.”
Walter Brueggemann
Walter Brueggemann
Featured October 16, 2025 (Original Nov 2025 )
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Jesus Changes Everything—Really?

Charles Moore describes how Stanley Hauerwas’s teaching challenged him to align his thinking and living with the way of Jesus.
Charles E. Moore
Charles E. Moore
September 25, 2025
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Defining The Evangelical Tradition: The Word-Centered Life

From Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster defines the three themes of the Evangelical Tradition: the faithful proclamation of the gospel, the centrality of Scripture, and the confessional witness of the early Christian community.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured September 12, 2025 (Original Oct 1998 )
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A Pilgrimage with Sunlight

This one-day retreat will help you reflect on and expe­ri­ence God’s pres­ence dur­ing the course of a day. It con­sists of three times of observa­tion and prayer that could take as lit­tle as 15 min­utes each, or extend as long as you like.
Laura Rasmussen
Laura Rasmussen
Featured September 5, 2025 (Original Aug 2022 )