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Heal­ing from Race-Based Trauma

Author and coun­selor Sheila Wise Rowe knows first-hand the effects of racial trau­ma. She encour­ages us to ​“cre­ate spaces in per­son and across social media for one anoth­er to expe­ri­ence God’s heal­ing, love, com­pas­sion, and grace.”
Sheila Wise Rowe
Sheila Wise Rowe
October 9, 2020
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Giv­ing All to Christ

So, is Chris­tian­i­ty hard or easy? Is there a part of your­self that you nev­er want to lose in your Chris­t­ian walk? How do we rec­on­cile becom­ing ful­ly our­selves while los­ing our lives in the with-God life? Jon Bai­ley intro­duces this clas­sic C.S. Lewis piece about ​“embrac­ing utter aban­don­ment to God.”
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
September 25, 2020
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Catch­ing a Glimpse of God’s Heart

An excerpt from Prayer: Find­ing the Heart’s True Home that helps us ​“cap­ture a glimpse” of God’s heart as ​“an open wound of love.”
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
September 18, 2020
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God’s Crash School

“Hit­ting my own bot­tom of depres­sion,” writes Juani­ta Ras­mus, ​“has enabled me to come to an amaz­ing aware­ness: I had been sourc­ing my life from an illu­sion.” That aware­ness led her to find the source of her being and life is not in self-made rules but in Christ.
Juanita Campbell Rasmus
Juanita Campbell Rasmus
September 9, 2020
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To Be Human Is To Pray

From his book How to Pray, Pete Greig helps us find ways and places to speak the soul’s native lan­guage of prayer.
Pete Greig
Pete Greig
September 4, 2020
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Improv­ing Our Con­scious Con­tact with God

Trevor Hud­son, a non­al­co­holic, has found great help in AA’s Twelve Steps. Here he unpacks the Eleventh Step: We sought through prayer and med­i­ta­tion to improve our con­scious con­tact with God… pray­ing only for knowl­edge of God’s will for us and the pow­er to car­ry that out.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
August 28, 2020
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The Gift of Weak­ness and The Need for Practice

With inim­itable wis­dom and grace, Fenélon helps a friend wel­come weak­ness as a gift, and reminds him that spir­i­tu­al knowl­edge is only help­ful to the extent that it is put into practice.
François Fénelon
François Fénelon
August 21, 2020
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Lis­ten to the Groans

“Many peo­ple see the injus­tice in the world as a rea­son to give up on faith,” writes Car­olyn Arends, ​“but the irony is, when we decry injus­tice, our hearts res­onate with the heart of God more than we can pos­si­bly imagine.”
Carolyn Arends
Carolyn Arends
August 14, 2020
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Two Sim­ple Ques­tions for Cul­ti­vat­ing Self-Kindness

Cindy Bunch offers a sim­ple way to look back on each day that can lead to increased com­pas­sion toward self and empa­thy toward others.
Cindy Bunch
Cindy Bunch
August 14, 2020
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Ten Ques­tions with Chris Hall

In this inter­view with Cre­do Mag­a­zine, Ren­o­varé Pres­i­dent Chris Hall cov­ers the Trin­i­ty, the Church Fathers, and the Great Tradition.
Chris Hall
Chris Hall
July 30, 2020