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Winter Tree

Thriving in the Winter Season of the Soul

We can cooperate with the Spirit’s transforming work even in the midst of the winter of the soul. Renovaré Ministry Team member and pastor Mimi Dixon shares how.
Miriam Dixon
Miriam Dixon
November 23, 2024

How Should We Read

Chris Hall draws from monastic wisdom to explore the transformative power of slow, intentional reading. By engaging eyes, ears, and heart through reiteration and rumination, Scripture and rich books can imprint truth on our souls.
Christopher A. Hall
Christopher A. Hall
November 23, 2024

Practicing Availability and Vulnerability, Part 2

This month I want to continue working with those two beautifully challenging words: availability and vulnerability. I’d like to explore how we can practice these as a spiritual discipline, some potential challenges, and what these practices might look like in a ministry context.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
November 23, 2024
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Practicing Availability and Vulnerability

Nathan Foster explores how availability and vulnerability are modeled in the life of Jesus and how we can incorporate them into our lives.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
November 23, 2024
Ri Chicago Still 1

The Rise of Educational Spiritual Formation Communities

Educational spiritual formation communities have sprouted up around the world. Nathan Foster unpacks their gifts and challenges.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
November 23, 2024
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What to Pray When Pain Takes Your Words

When we’re unable to find our own words to pray, when all we have is worn and exhausted groans, Nathan Foster shows there is still a way to pray.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster
November 23, 2024
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Welcoming the Stranger

While it’s easy to feel a sense of community with those who are like us and with whom we feel a natural closeness, are these the only communities into which we are called as Christians? Guest editor Marlena Graves invites us to reconsider the very nature of community in this piece from Jan Johnson.
Jan Johnson
Jan Johnson
November 23, 2024
Solar Eclipse

Pauses For Lent: Overcoming Evil

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
November 23, 2024
Jesus Disciples Fresco

Pauses For Lent: Who Do You Say I Am?

Jesus asks his disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” Trevor Hudson unpacks why few questions are more important.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
November 23, 2024
Transfiguration

Pauses For Lent: Mountaintop Experiences

How do we respond to and overcome evil? Trevor Hudson points us to Jesus in this Lent reflection.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
November 23, 2024