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Addressing our Mental Health Crisis

  • Post published:April 13, 2023
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I am kind of obsessed with Dr. Lisa Miller right now. I read her 2015 book, The Spiritual Child, a few months back. And then I raced through her more…

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10 Ways to Practice Resurrection

  • Post published:April 10, 2023
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Yesterday we stood in church and sang Alleluia, and afterwards we gathered with friends and feasted and drank champagne and rejoiced with this day of remembering that the way of…

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Easter| Love Is Life

  • Post published:April 9, 2023
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Love is the strongest power. Love is the core of the universe. Love is the only unending, unshakable, permanent truth. Love is life. Love is the narrow path to the…

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Hope on Holy Saturday

  • Post published:April 8, 2023
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There is a space that stretches between despair and joy. A painful moment. Of waiting. Of uncertainty. Of fear and grief and doubt tinged with the smallest glimmer of light.…

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Sitting in the Dark on Good Friday

  • Post published:April 7, 2023
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I would like to skip Good Friday. I would like the cross to not be a part of the story. I would like to ignore darkness and suffering.  I would…

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Jean Vanier and the Way of Blessing

  • Post published:April 6, 2023
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Jean Vanier was the storied founder of L’Arche, a global movement of communities for people with and without intellectual disabilities. Vanier won The Templeton Prize. He authored dozens of beautiful…

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S6 E16 | Enchantment in an Anxious Age with Katherine May

  • Post published:April 4, 2023
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In an anxious, rational world, is there a place for enchantment? Katherine May, New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, talks with Amy Julia Becker about awakening wonder,…

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Imagining a World Without School Shootings

  • Post published:March 31, 2023
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Three nine-year-old children were murdered in their classroom on Monday morning. Three nine-year-old children. Their beautiful faces captured our imagination through tragedy. Theirs are one more in a litany of…

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Reruns With Jesus

  • Post published:March 29, 2023
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Eleven years ago, we moved to a new town and Peter started a new job. I called it my “year of wine and nachos,” as some of you may recall…

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What Will Perfect Humanity Look Like?

  • Post published:March 28, 2023
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I used to think I knew what perfect humanity looked like. I thought it had to do with virtues like kindness and honesty. I also thought it had to do…

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