Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 4, 2024 Aching for Resurrection I’m digging out—along with many in the southeast—from Hurricane Helene’s devastation. For us there was only minor property damage. Others experienced…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 12, 2021 A Path Through the Pain When after a loss we ask ourselves, “Is it supposed to hurt this bad?” stories like Jacob’s tell us “Yes, but there is a path through the pain.” We do not…
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Renovaré WeeklyMarch 5, 2021 Overcome Feeling with Fact? So does that mean right thinking doesn't matter? Of course not. It's vital. But here’s what I missed: thinking like Jesus doesn’t mean bypassing emotions. It…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 19, 2020 Soul-Deep Bellow An African-American pastor and worship leader with a powerful voice, Donn stood up in that moment and did something no one present will soon forget. Head…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 15, 2020 Things Pushed Down Come Out Sideways On the Renovaré Podcast this week, Fil talked with Nathan Foster about how many of us are grieving. There are varying levels of grief, arising from both…
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Renovaré WeeklyOctober 26, 2018 A Long Farewell In a piece Chris Hall wrote after the 2016 passing of his dear friend Tom Oden, he recalls the words of Thomas Lynch: "Grief is the tax we pay for loving." We…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeAmanda Held Opelt — God, Goodness, and GriefMarch 14, 2025
Amanda Opelt talks with Nathan about finding her theological assumptions challenged during a season of deep grief. The two discuss the difference between… -
Podcast EpisodeWinn Collier — Hope that Won’t DisappointOctober 4, 2024
Winn Collier, director of the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination, talks with Nathan about hardships that shatter false hopes and the one reality… -
Podcast EpisodeCarolyn Arends — Maladjusted
March 8, 2021
"Let's all get maladjusted to a world gone mad," sings Carolyn Arends. In this episode, she shares two songs from her new album—"Maladjusted" and "To Cry for… -
Podcast EpisodeChris Hall — Remembering Thomas Oden: New Doesn’t Mean BetterFebruary 19, 2017
Nathan Foster talks with Renovaré president Chris Hall about his recently passed friend, mentor and theologian Tom Oden. Chris also shares why ancient writings… -
Podcast EpisodeBeth Allen Slevcove — Broken Hallelujahs
January 29, 2017
Beth Allen Slevcove is a spiritual director, retreat leader, writer, surfer and mother in San Diego, California. Nathan talks with her about learning to…
Articles
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ArticleLiturgy for Grieving a National Tragedy "You alone have strength to carry this people. Carry us now, O Lord." In a time of collective grieving, we are thankful for the succor of written liturgies…
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ArticleThe Prayer of Suffering Richard Foster invites us to "voluntarily take into ourselves the griefs and sorrows of others in order to set them free" in this chapter from his book…
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ArticleRwanda Revisited This article was included in the October 1994 issue of Perspectives. Marti Ensign, a member of our Ministry Team, was in Central Africa in April 1994 when the airplane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi was shot down.…
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ArticleStoicism Isn’t Spiritual What Grief Is Teaching Me About Being Fully Human After her mom passed, Carolyn Arends found herself in what seemed like a disproportionate amount of pain. “People go through much harder things than this," she…
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ArticleSongs In The Key of Life From Letters to a Young Congregation In this letter to his congregation, Pastor Eric Peterson reflects, "Jesus didn’t come to deliver us from our humanity and its accompanying heartaches, but to…
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ArticleNavigating a New World Reflections on Grieving a Good Friend Continuing his reflections about loss and grief, Chris Hall turns his attention to the ways those we love never really leave us—even when they are more than a…
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ArticleTragedy Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 4 No. 4 Tragedy comes in many sizes and shapes. We find it in the macrocosm of human history. Team member Marti Ensign graphically takes us into this in her moving…
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ArticleGrief Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 2 No. 2 What can anyone say or do in the face of tragic loss? Richard Foster's letter from 1992 offers wise counsel on how to stand with people in their grief.
