Books
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BookLearning from Henri Nouwen and Vincent van Gogh Carol Berry and her husband met and befriended Henri Nouwen when she sat in his course on compassion at Yale Divinity School in the 1970s. At the request of…
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BookStreams of Living Water Essential Practices from the Six Great Traditions of Christian Faith The author of the bestselling Celebration of Discipline explores the great traditions of Christian spirituality and their role in spiritual renewal today.
Weekly Newsletters
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Renovaré WeeklyFebruary 13, 2026 God is Not an Idea Today I simply want to remind you, remind my own heart, of something that in all our religious activity and spiritual conversation can be easy to forget.God is…
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Renovaré WeeklyMay 9, 2025 We Need to Learn to See People This week’s intro is from our vault—an excerpt by Chris Webb, a Benedictine Anglican priest and former president of Renovaré. Lightly edited for clarity and…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 21, 2019 Heart Posture There's a parallel here for the inner life. Intentionally or unintentionally, healthy or unhealthy, everyone develops a body posture. And everyone develops a…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 14, 2019 What Makes Work “Christian”? “There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the…
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Renovaré WeeklyJune 7, 2019 Still Good His life was a seamless garment of contemplative prayer and loving action, showing us that the physical and the spiritual are never in competition. The…
Podcast Episodes
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Podcast EpisodeTiffany Clark — Sundar Singh’s God-Bathed WorldFebruary 13, 2026
Nathan Foster talks with Tiffany Clark about what the 20th century Indian Christian mystic Sundar Singh can teach us about encountering God. -
Podcast EpisodeRobyn Wrigley-Carr — Evelyn Underhill’s Spiritual Formation
November 29, 2022
Robyn Wrigley-Carr returns to the Renovaré Podcast to talk with Nate about Evelyn Underhill—the 20th century author, spiritual director and retreat leader—and… -
Podcast EpisodeBeth and David Booram — When Faith Becomes Sight
July 13, 2020
Beth and David Booram, spiritual directors and cofounders of an urban retreat center in Indianapolis, invite us to look for God in places we normally overlook,… -
Podcast EpisodeJean Nevills — Aware and Awake
December 15, 2019
"We invite the one who loves us into our awareness... and the Spirit at the same time is inviting us to be aware and be awake." Writer and spiritual director… -
Podcast EpisodeRichard Foster — Encountering God in Everyday Life (Streams: Incarnational)
June 2, 2019
Can we encounter God mowing the lawn as well as in the Eucharist? Continuing a series on the six major Christian traditions, or streams, outlined in his book…
Articles
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ArticleGod’s Purposes in Prayer Selections from At the Master’s Feet From At the Master’s Feet, read Sundar Singh’s conversation between "The Disciple" and "The Master" in which Jesus responds to questions on prayer with…
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ArticleThe Death and the Dance Kai Nilsen explains that Lenten practice is on the rise in a variety of denominations that are “awakening to the beauty of ritual and the recurring rhythms of…
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ArticleOne Torch Lights Another The Spiritual Formation of Evelyn Underhill Robyn Wrigley-Carr traces the influence of Baron Friedrich von Hügel in the life of 20th century author and retreat guide, Evelyn Underhill.
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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.
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ArticleSpiritual Leadership in an Age of Disorientation Professor, pastor, and Renovaré Institute teacher, Rev. Dr. Kurtley Knight, shares an original essay with Renovaré readers about the role of story and ritual…
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ArticleOn “True” Art and the Spiritual Leadership of Artists Selections from the writings of Dorothy Sayers Excerpts from the letters of Dorothy Sayers speak of artists as “priests” and art as a tangible representation of our invisible God.
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ArticleMonastery in Montana Winn Collier gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the “mature holiness” formed during Eugene Peterson’s later years in this excerpt from his authorized…
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ArticlePracticing the Presence of Christ Trevor Hudson explains classical practices for growing our awareness of God's presence "wherever we are and in whatever we are doing."
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ArticleTo See Clearly Excerpts from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Writer Annie Dillard looks at the mysterious natural environment at Tinker Creek and records her insights into this physical, yet extraordinarily spiritual,…
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ArticleThe God Who Sees Me Finding Our Safety and Affirmation in God Every human being desires to be known and affirmed—a desire that only our Maker can deeply fulfill. With honesty and vulnerability, Jill Weber shares how an…
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ArticleLight Enough to Live By What Does It Look Like to Incarnate the Light of Christ? "We are incarnating vessels," says Jean Nevills. "It isn’t if we will incarnate but what." In her parents, married over seventy years, Jean gives us an…
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ArticlePractical Ways to Live All of Life With God Practicing the Incarnational Tradition In this excerpt from Streams of Living Water, Richard Foster provides very practical ways to live all of life—everyday home and family and work life—with God.
