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Carolyn Arends
Director of Education, Renovaré
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Satan's a Goner
Featured May 5, 2016
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
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thrashing time” of an evil that has been entirely conquered but just doesn’t know it yet.
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Going Down Singing
Featured February 17, 2016
Renovaré’s Director of Education, Carolyn Arends, reflects on some of the things her father’s death taught her about the way we are called to live the one earthly life we are given.
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Meeting on Mountains
Featured February 3, 2016
In this Transfiguration Sunday piece, Renovaré’s Director of Education Carolyn Arends draws us into a creative reimagining of the reunion of friends on Mount Tabor.
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