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Speak Truth to Power Use words when necessary. ​Measuring our words with wisdom does not mean turning a blind eye to evil. Carolyn Arends shares a recent piece from Faith Today about "the quiet power of a life shaped by God" that does not need to…

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Kindness Isn’t Quaint Kindness often gets thrown in with niceness, manners and etiquette. But it’s altogether something different. Those things are of earth. Kindness is of heaven.

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Making Advent More Meaningful "I hear the laments of parents. I am a lamenting parent. Christmas is too much about the stuff. The stuff begins to clog up the supermarket aisles as early as September." Lacy Finn Borgo shares ways…

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Relaxing into Another Reality In this reflection from Jan Johnson on a particular time spent doing lectio divina on Matthew 8:23-27, she invites us in several ways to imagine Jesus' calm in the face of chaos.

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An Invitation to Transforming Friendship "Telling a lone­ly per­son that God is his or her friend can sound very hol­low," writes Trevor Hudson. "It only becomes mean­ing­ful when we make the divine friend­ship real by mod­el­ing it in our…

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The Exponentially Personal Trinity "Three persons who are distinct, but are not, by any stretch of the imagination, independent of one another. On the contrary, they are so dependent, so interdependent, that though each is the one…

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Empty Square Days A Personal Reflection on Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity Margaret Campbell views the empty spaces on her calendar not as an absence but as a wonderful opportunity to soak in God's presence. Using a vision of Rublev's icon as a focus, Margaret invites us to…

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The Sermon on the Mount Perspectives Newsletter Vol. 11 No. 4 "​Genuine Christian renewal will always carry in its wake a richer and deeper understanding of Scripture," Richard Foster reminds us. "And when we consider the renewal movement of discipleship to…

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Sabbath, Streams at Church, and What God’s doing in the American Church James and Tiana take on listener questions about how to practice sabbath and how to explore the Streams of Christian tradition as a church, and guest contributor Ted Harro joins the cast for an…

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Audio Meditation: A Litany of Humility We invite you to enter a time of prayer with Nathan Foster as he works through the Litany of Humility’s three movements and expands them with his own meditations. The prayer begins, “O Jesus! meek…