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Margaret Campbell

Margaret Campbell

Margaret Campbell

Articles & Essays by Margaret Campbell

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Essay from Meditations on the Birth of Jesus

The Humble and Messy Arrival of God

Published December, 2019 • Featured December 22, 2020
Did the shepherds stop to wonder why the Messiah was born in a stable attended by animals? Someday we can ask them. For now, we notice, with help from this meditation by Miriam Dixon and Margaret Campbell.
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Essay from Meditations on the Birth of Jesus

When Plans Get Interrupted

Published December, 2019 • Featured December 11, 2020
God radically rearranged Joseph’s planned future with Mary. Rather than resist, Joseph believed and obeyed. Miriam Dixon and Margaret Campbell help us gain a fresh perspective on the often overlooked sacrifices of the famous carpenter.
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Essay from Meditations on the Birth of Jesus

Mary's Choice

Published December, 2019 • Featured December 4, 2020
From the Renovaré resource Meditations on the Birth of Jesus, Miriam Dixon and Margaret Campbell invite us to ponder Mary’s choice of how to receive God’s word to her through Gabriel.
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Essay from Meditations on the Birth of Jesus

The Longing of God to Be Connected to You

Published December, 2019 • Featured November 25, 2020
Written for the first week of Advent as part of the Renovaré resource Meditations on the Birth of Jesus, Miriam Dixon and Margaret Campbell engage our imaginations to help us hear God’s invitation into restored relationship.
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Open Spaces for Solitude

Published March, 1997 • Featured September 4, 2018
Margaret Campbell writes about carving out time and space for solitude so that we are free to be found by God.
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Empty Square Days

Featured March 17, 2016
Margaret Campbell views the empty square space on her calendar not as an absence but as an invitation. Using a vision of Rublev’s icon as a focus, Margaret invites us to take a seat at the table with the Trinity and revel, both in conversation and silence, in the gift of fellowship and community.
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Discovering a World Packed with God

Featured March 15, 2016
Renovaré board and ministry team member Margaret Campbell shares both family memories and some observations by Frank Laubach (Letters by a Modern Mystic) that have taught her to be open to and aware of ​“a world jam-packed with God.”
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Who is a Disciple?

Published January, 2002 • Featured January 1, 2002
Does our evangelism include the good news that we can grow and mature in Christlikeness? Margaret Campbell tells how she and her husband have worked to help people in church become actual disciples, being ​“divinely changed” by God’s grace.