Discovering the Heights of Grace in the Depths of Loss
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The Only New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping
How deep does your own fear run when you think of letting go of something you might be holding too tightly?
Unexpected Essential Workers
Unexpected Essential Workers How Chaplains Are Holding Us Together by Susan Cosio | January 11, 2021 The silver band I wear on my wrist is engraved with words, from a prayer by Saint Teresa of Avila: His hands, his feet, [...]
A Word for the Weary
Our relational cup remains relatively empty (and for a relational movement like ours, this is particularly painful) as we grapple with social distancing and try to connect through interacting via screens. Any novelty and initial exhilaration of church online has worn off.
Uncommon Epiphanies
A New Season of Recognizing What Is Right in Front of Us
When Branches Grow
While useless if you just push it, a rope can be used to pull anything if adequate force is applied.
The Chaos and the Order
Review of The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi
5 Minutes with Patty Burchell: Nome Is Home
Patty Burchell says she has a vivid memory of a promise she made to God in seventh grade: “I will go.” From that moment on, she trusted God to call her into various fields of Christian ministry. Today she serves as the first female station manager of KICY radio in Nome, Alaska, a ministry of the Alaska Conference, where she broadcasts the gospel to a vast region of western Alaska and the Russian Far East.
Prepared to Respond
Creating Shared Resilience: The Role of the Church in a Hopeful Future by David M. Boan and Josh Ayers
The Advent of Hope
Reopening positive pathways in a quarantine that feels endless
Frozen Thanks
The nature of winter and the nature of God