How Can Churches and Ministries Recover Their Founding Vision?
Dallas Willard offers wise counsel to help us avoid letting service to Christ usurp love of Christ.
Featured November 8, 2021 (Original Jan 2025 )
Why Leaves are Loudest Just Before They Die
Hannah Anderson searches out the spiritual and theological truths woven deep within the autumnal glories of the Virginia mountains.
Featured November 5, 2021 (Original Feb 2021 )
To See Clearly
Writer Annie Dillard looks at the mysterious natural environment at Tinker Creek and records her insights into this physical, yet extraordinarily spiritual, world.
Featured November 5, 2021 (Original Mar 2015 )
A Magical Universe
In this “profoundly incarnational selection,” G. K. Chesterton suggests that it is a fallacy of materialism to see nature’s repetition as impersonal or “clockwork.” Instead, he muses, perhaps God, in his inexhaustible creativity, “makes each daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.”
Featured November 5, 2021 (Original Jan 1908 )
Christians and Decided Christians
Thomas Kelly writes about the intentional, “decided” character of true Christianity, which places “the whole of life in a new and divine Center.”
Featured October 29, 2021 (Original Dec 2016 )
Rolling as a Mighty Ocean
Zane Creamer offers us a personal account of fighting both for and against life. She reflects upon the “power, vastness, and mysterious depths” of the ocean that demand respect of swimmer and sailor alike, and considers how those same qualities are found in the love of Jesus.
Featured October 29, 2021 (Original Sep 2016 )
God’s Invitations to Be Transformed as We Age
Author Alice Fryling helps us find holy opportunities hidden within the uncertainties and disruptions of growing older.
Featured October 22, 2021 (Original Oct 2021 )
Simplicity: A Practical Guide
Adele Calhoun reminds us that “The practice of letting go and embracing simplicity is one way we prepare ourselves for what is to come.”
Featured October 22, 2021 (Original Oct 2005 )
Thou Shalt Celebrate
Dallas Willard unpacks the discipline of Celebration- enjoying “ourselves, our life, and our world” with God.
Featured October 22, 2021 (Original Dec 1987 )