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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.
Marilyn McEntyre
Marilyn McEntyre
Featured March 22, 2024 (Original Nov 2024 )
Anthony

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.
Athanasius
Athanasius
Featured March 16, 2024 (Original Nov 2024 )
Forgive

The Christian’s Authority to Forgive Sin

“The followers of Jesus Christ have been given the authority to receive the confession of sin and to forgive it in his name.” Richard Foster unpacks the privilege and power of confession in this Celebration of Discipline excerpt.
Richard J. Foster
Richard J. Foster
Featured March 15, 2024 (Original Dec 1977 )
Forgiveness

Pauses for Lent: Forgiven

Hear these words of Jesus: “Friend, your sins are forgiven.” Trevor Hudson invites us to pause and consider Christ’s offer.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
Featured March 15, 2024 (Original Nov 2024 )
Atonement

The Perfect Penitent

C.S. Lewis’s explores the role of the incarnation in the mystery of the atonement. “We cannot share God’s dying unless God dies; and he cannot die except by being a man.”
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Featured March 15, 2024 (Original Nov 2024 )
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The Furnace of Transformation

In his classic book The Way of the Heart, Henri Nouwen calls the discipline of solitude “the furnace of transformation” because it is there that we meet Christ, without whom we have no power to fight the false self.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Featured March 10, 2024 (Original Jan 1981 )
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Still

Our hearts long for intimacy with God. Trevor Hudson looks at little ways to embrace the outward and inward stillness where we meet with the Lord.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
Featured March 8, 2024 (Original Sep 2015 )
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Pauses For Lent: Taking a Stand

How do we follow in the footsteps of Christ to confront anything out of kilter with God’s kingdom—in ourselves and in our world? Trevor Hudson points us to Christ’s triumphal entry in this Lenten reflection.
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
Featured March 8, 2024 (Original Jan 2015 )
Praying Around Table

Becoming Like Jesus: Sacramental Life

Author and priest Chris Webb invites us to remember that nothing which happens after the creation of the cosmos once causes God to revoke his blessing on the material universe: it is “very good.”
Chris Webb
Chris Webb
Featured March 8, 2024 (Original Dec 2009 )
Dunn See Yourself

How You See Yourself Matters

Selections from Renovaré’s From the Inside Out Journal help you to reflect on how you see yourself, who God has created you to be, and how the process of change takes time and patient cooperation.
Renovaré Team
Renovaré Team
Featured March 1, 2024 (Original Jan 2024 )