Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 27, 2023 Creative Work Can Be a Connector Appreciating the peculiarities of God’s design and responding creatively is something that all of us can do in our own way. Raw materials become touchpoints…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 20, 2023 What Good is Beauty in a Time Like This? But dark hours are not illuminated by dark thoughts. Christ himself was sustained in his suffering by meditating on joy, not evil (Heb. 12:2).
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 12, 2021 Drift What does help rekindle love for God is a fresh vision of God’s goodness and God’s beauty, a glimpse of God’s heart, “an open wound of love.”
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Renovaré WeeklyApril 23, 2021 Pollen Into Poetry By your tenth decade, life has provided plenty to complain about: pain, sickness, injustice; the disappearance of moral knowledge and the decay of your own…
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 5, 2021 Plumbing Theology “God does not just mend, repair, and restore; God renews and generates, transcending our expectations of even what we desire, beyond what we dare to ask or…
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 27, 2020 Becoming Re-wondered The goal of being “re-wondered” with the incarnation isn’t to recapture an emotional high for its own sake, trying as it were “to make every kiss feel like the…
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Renovaré WeeklyJuly 17, 2020 Strengthened by Story And there’s no better story than the story of God making us, loving us, and becoming one of us that we might become more like him. Sometimes, though, that…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeSarah Clarkson — The Gift of BeautyOctober 20, 2023
Sarah Clarkson spoke with Nathan Foster from her home in the UK about her experiences with grief and fear and the way God has been restoring faith, hope, and… -
Podcast EpisodeJames Bryan Smith — Beauty, Goodness and TruthAugust 20, 2017
"Our massive souls deserve a really good story," says James Bryan (Jim) Smith in this conversation about his new book that uncovers a gospel of beauty,… -
Podcast EpisodeRichard E. Cornell — Tolkien: Making the Good WinsomeJune 26, 2016
Nathan Foster chats with Spring Arbor professor and Tolkien expert Richard E. Cornell about Tolkien's work, his influence on C.S. Lewis, and his ability to…
Articles
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ArticleBeauty Rituals The rhythms of our world can press us to pay attention to what is wrong and ugly and evil, but "beauty rituals" are ways to resist that formation and to set…
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ArticleBaptize My Eyes What would it be like to see as God sees? Writer and photographer Katelyn Dixon shares about a prayer that God answered with a sweet gift of sight and insight.