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Discipline: We Can Live By It "The disciplined person is the free person," writes Richard Foster. In this 1982 essay, Richard explains how God uses disciplines not to bind us to a set of rules, but to release us from controlling…

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Meditations on the Birth of Jesus A Renovaré Advent Resource for Spiritual Renewal A four week Advent devotional with meditations on Scripture and art, written by Renovaré team members Miriam (Mimi) Dixon and Margaret Campbell.

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Money and the Spiritual Life Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 17 No. 1 It is never a bad time to revisit some foundational ideas about money and its uses for good or ill in our lives and world. Richard Foster joins us to share some thoughts about money's proper place in…

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Facing Reality: The Grace of Acceptance What do you do when you find out you have Parkinson's? Glandion Carney shares his journey from denial to acceptance to grace.

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Richard Foster — A Mind Continually Set on God (Streams: Contemplative) "I will set the Lord always before me." ​These words from Psalm 16 are the crux of the Contemplative Tradition (the Prayer-filled Life). Nathan Foster interviews his father, Richard Foster,…

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An Open Empty Space Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 2 In this 1991 Renovaré letter Richard Foster writes, "It is time we follow our Leader's lead." We learn from Jesus how to carve out time and space for personal retreat where the gifts of solitude can…

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We Never Outgrow Asking Petition isn’t a lower form of prayer — it’s our staple diet Adoration or contemplation may seem nobler than asking God for something. But Richard Foster kindly insists that petition isn't a lower form of prayer—it's our staple diet.

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Three Converging Influences from the introduction to Celebration of Discipline Richard Foster tells how a range of spiritual mentors from different Christian traditions helped him become a more rooted Christian.

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Maturing the Spiritual Formation Movement Some of us have been at this spiritual formation work for a while now, long enough to see quite a mixture of helpful and decidedly unhelpful things set forth. Richard Foster assesses where we are and…

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Release with Hope Sometimes, the start of a new year can serve as an impetus to let go of the destructive things in our lives. The Prayer of Relinquishment can move us from "the struggling to the releasing," as…

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The Peaceable War of the Lamb In the essay from the archives, Richard Foster explains how Jesus, our commander and our chief, calls us into a spiritual warfare that will profoundly impact the social order on every conceivable…

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Seeing the Bible Afresh Is it time to see Scripture with new eyes? For anyone "starving at the spiritual feast," Richard Foster offers a paradigm for Bible study called the Immanuel Principle—God with us.