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Connecting with God in the Here and Now Nathan Foster reflects on the ways God matures our faith in times when we sense God’s nearness as well as times of loneliness or “uneventful” prayer.

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Knowing God Means More Than Describing Him "For all my love of language," writes Carolyn Arends in this column from Christianity Today, "I’ve been troubled by a growing sense that I need to pay more attention to wordless things."

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We Need a Great New Vision of the Church In this classic piece adapted from a 1985 talk, Richard encourages Quaker ministers about the need for a great new vision for the Church.

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Cultural Humility Whether close to home or far away, loving people as Jesus loves means communicating and interacting across cultural differences. This excerpt gives a practical vision for Christ-like intercultural…

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Discovering and Rediscovering God’s Goodness "We all carry a seed of God within," writes Russell Tillman. "Perhaps the way to nourish this seed and to allow it to blossom and grow is to learn to embrace all things as from God."

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Exercise: Remembering Our Personal Stories From Discovering Our Spiritual Identity Trevor Hudson invites us into a three-part spiritual exercise, designed to refresh our awareness of God-with-us, heal past wounds, and renew our sense of purpose and partnership with the Holy One.

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Light 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 example of what it looks like to incarnate…

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The Prayer God Answers In this spiritual classic, Eberhard Arnold mines the riches of biblical teaching on prayer and the example of Jesus, the Hebrew prophets, and the early Christians to point us back to the prayer that…

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Our Glimpse of Eternity Humbles Us Evelyn Underhill’s handwritten collection of prayers for leading retreatants into corporate worship was thought to be lost. Robyn Wrigley-Carr recounts her discovery of this treasure and explains how…

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Green Leaves for Later Years The Spiritual Path of Wisdom ”What wisdom do I bring to the later years? Nothing more than the wisdom of dwelling in the present moment. No more than the courage of God's promises. Nothing more than the courage to walk through…

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Habits of Body and Mind for Renovating the Heart Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 12 No. 4 Richard Foster draws on Dallas Willard's teaching about how we can use our bodies and minds to yield ourselves to God's transforming work.