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Reflective Executive

The Reflective Executive

Former marketing consultant Emilie Griffin learned how to work alongside God in the midst of high-profile work. The reflective executive, she explains, is one “who operates within the realm of the practical knowing that with God, all things are possible.”
Emilie Griffin
Emilie Griffin
January 10, 2025
Reaching Toward Light

What Do We Mean by Prayer?

Evelyn Underhill invites us into a realm of complete dedication to prayer through what she calls our three faculties—thinking, feeling, and willing to act—which join to lead us to the center and art of prayer.
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill
January 10, 2025

The Renovaré Mission
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
Woman Comforting Another

Sitting with Suffering

How do we address the suffering of others? What can we say or do to alleviate their pain? Richard Foster offers some wise words on the spiritual practice of presence that will help fill their seasons of grief and tragedy with healing and grace.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
Friends Pray

My Friends Had Become My Prayer
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
03 20 Breaking Bread

How We Pray for Daily Bread

​Trusting God fully means learning to ask for our bread, day by day. To those of us who live in a world of efficient farming, industrial bakeries, and super-sized grocery stores, asking for our daily bread may seem a quaint, too trivial petition. Not so, says Richard Foster in this excerpt.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025

The Sanctity of the Ordinary
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025

The Prayer of Relinquishment
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025

The Gift of Tears
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
January 10, 2025
Elk Under Trees

Walking in the Power of God

Quaker founder George Fox wrote over three thousand letters, mostly to groups. These tender, practical letters display a full range of pastoral concern. These selections provide a glimpse into Fox’s loving call to confident and complete Christian living.
George Fox
George Fox
January 10, 2025