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Body Redemption

Is Your Body Beyond Redemption?

“On the other hand, if the body is simply beyond redemption, then ordinary life is too.” Dallas Willard explores redemption’s fullest effects in this excerpt from The Great Omission.
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Dallas Willard
Featured April 12, 2024 (Original Jun 2006 )
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Give Me Your Forgiveness

Nothing short of God’s power to raise the dead is needed to forgive our enemies. Read Corrie ten Boom’s description of meeting a Ravensbruck guard years after her captivity.
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Corrie ten Boom
Featured April 12, 2024 (Original Nov 1971 )
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On the Road of Disappointment

Rev. Toni Pate explores our solidarity with the unnamed follower of Jesus who met him on the road on Easter evening.
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Toni Pate
Featured April 12, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
Serpent Crushed

Satan’s a Goner

Christ has overcome the world. Carolyn Arends offers a vivid reminder of this truth and the call to live with hope and purpose in this “thrashing time” of an evil that has been entirely conquered but just doesn’t know it yet.
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Carolyn Arends
Featured April 12, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
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Longing to be Known

James Bryan Smith, reflects on the kind of intimacy that comes from having shared spiritual goals.
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James Bryan Smith
Featured April 5, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
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A Liturgy for Cultivating Imagination and A Blessing for Bravery

Read two selections from Liturgies for Wholeness, hand-picked by the authors for Renovaré readers: “A Liturgy for Cultivating Imagination” and “A Blessing for Bravery.”
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Audrey Elledge & Elizabeth Moore
Featured April 5, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
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An Invitation to Transforming Friendship​

“Telling a lone­ly per­son that God is his or her friend can sound very hol­low,” writes Trevor Hudson. “It only becomes mean­ing­ful when we make the divine friend­ship real by mod­el­ing it in our own relationships.”
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Trevor Hudson
Featured April 5, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
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Holy Week in Jerusalem

A woman’s letter to friends is the earliest account of a Holy Land pilgrimage. Egeria’s description of the Stations of the Cross gives us a little window into early Christianity and the birth of Holy Week liturgical practice.
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Egeria
Featured March 22, 2024 (Original Dec 0381 )
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The Moment of Divine Encounter

“God who entered history is also the One who lives outside time,” and so we can encounter him in his passion from any time and any place. Marilyn McEntyre helps us enter the events of Maundy Thursday.
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Marilyn McEntyre
Featured March 22, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )
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Anthony and Examen

Anthony gives his fellow monks some worthy counsel on the practice of examen—showing them how reflecting on their spiritual lives will both keep them from sin and promote love.
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Athanasius
Featured March 16, 2024 (Original Jan 2025 )