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Longing to be Known

James Bryan Smith, reflects on the kind of intimacy that comes from having shared spiritual goals.
James Bryan Smith
James Bryan Smith
Featured April 5, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
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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.”
Trevor Hudson
Trevor Hudson
Featured April 5, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
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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.
Marilyn McEntyre
Marilyn McEntyre
Featured March 22, 2024 (Original Dec 2024 )
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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 Dec 2024 )
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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.
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Richard J. Foster
Featured March 15, 2024 (Original Dec 1977 )
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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 Dec 2024 )
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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 Dec 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.
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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 )