Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyNovember 15, 2024 Turn to the person beside you and say… God’s love language is togetherness. Anchored by the communion of saints across time, we’re part of a living tradition, learning from those in the Body of…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 16, 2022 Ecumenical Yet across the full spectrum of Christian tradition, you will find sincere and devout followers of Jesus from whom we have much to learn—not in spite of their…
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Renovaré WeeklySeptember 3, 2021 The Church as We Know It As with any time of cultural shaking and shifting, there will be losses to grieve, old ways of doing things that we miss. There is also the potential to…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 9, 2020 Healing Racial Trauma “This is a moment for the Big C church to step up,” she tells Nathan. “There is a whole part of the body that is hurting… What is Jesus calling us to do in…
Articles
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ArticleBoat An Image for the Church In an essay from Renovaré's new booklet Body, Bride, Boat, Grace Pouch explores a metaphor for the Church that helps us understand how to be the community of…
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ArticleOne Body in Christ We must “fearlessly practice” unity in the Body, writes Kokichi Kurosaki in this excerpt warning against divisions in the Church.
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ArticleThe Significance of the Hour "For centuries, the church has been judged by its creeds and confessions, but today it is being judged by its deeds." This sermon by Reverend Adam Clayton…
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ArticleWhy Medieval? from Jesus through Medieval Eyes "We all read out of the context and history of the time in which we live," writes Grace Hamman. But the writing and art of our Medieval Christian brothers and…
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ArticleThe Holy Spirit Has a History Many have believed that God went silent for hundreds of years after the 1st century. Not so. With the help of his mentor, Tom Oden, Chris Hall learned to trace…
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ArticleThe Model of a Virtuous Life In this excerpt from Richard Foster's Streams of Living Water, a biographical sketch of Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers an example of the Holiness Tradition and a…
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ArticleGetting the Big Picture How we can know the Bible, not just Bible trivia In this classic article from Christianity Today, Richard Foster encourages Christians to embrace the authority and wisdom God has invested in his…
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ArticleThe Six Streams and Hope for a New Reformation Nathan Foster imagines a new reformation within the Body of Christ, one grounded in the ecumenical embrace of the six historical movements, or streams, in…
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ArticleA Brief Overview of the With-God Life From the Life with God Bible, this brief overview of biblical history helps us grasp how the divine drama took concrete forms in each age as people…
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ArticleA Panoramic View of God’s Purpose in History In addition to understanding the Bible's overarching theme in the with-God life and its transformation of the People of God, it is also helpful to view the…
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ArticleCredo Jesus prayed that we would be one (John 17). We too often feel like many. But the Apostles’ Creed reminds us of the One to whom we belong, and in remembering…
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ArticleHumility in Action Here is a study in the virtue of humility as expressed in the life of Paul's spiritual son, Timothy, and examined in his personality profile in the pages of…
