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Always And
by Rev. Melissa Cooper
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Why the 12 Days of Christmas Matter More than Ever

This is the first Advent season spent in local church leadership as a clergyperson. In my previous...
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Christians in General
by Christians in General
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Coming Out as Mentally Ill in the Church

I stepped up to the pulpit to say the words I spoke every week: “Good Morning! Welcome to White...
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Coloring Outside the Lines
by Cara Meredith
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Are you an Oregonian?

As any reader of The Color of Life now knows, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. Returning to my...
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Cultivating Glory
by Christie Purifoy
RECENT POST:
Pursuing Less This Lent

For too many years in a row, I've tried to observe Lent my own way. Giving up chocolate or...
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The Doxology Project
by Brad Roth
RECENT POST:
A Spirituality of Dust and Ashes

The words and ash of Ash Wednesday are a prick to our consciences to turn and truly live.
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Dry Bones
by Kathleen Mulhern
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On Discouragement and Trusting in God: Readings from a Puritan

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I...
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Everything Becoming
by Casey Tygrett
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A Practice for Saturday Soul Work

I thought it might be interesting to post a spiritual practice today. This a common spiritual...
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The Fluency of Hope
by Alia Joy
RECENT POST:
Weakness At Its Most Wondrous: Strength

My first book, Glorious Weakness: Discovering God in All We Lack, comes out in two weeks. Most...
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Joe Puentes
by Joe Puentes
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A Pile of Dead Animal Bones and a Brain Tumor

It was late May midmorning day when my friend Pat and I arrived at the base of Barnes Butte. The...
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Mere Chris-ianity
by Chris Williams
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Christmas in November

It’s early November, and Michael Buble has already told me it’s beginning to look a lot like...
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Old Things New
by Laura Jean Truman
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Pilgrimage, Lent, and Giving Up Words

I'm taking a break from writing this Lent, while I go on pilgrimage on the Way of St. Francis of...
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The Porch
by Jerusalem Jackson Greer
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Making a Beautiful Mess of the Bible

by Heather Caliri I am a big fan of a good to-do list. Give me some action items, goals, or...
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Spiritual Direction 101
by Teresa Blythe
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Spiritual Direction in the Current Christian Climate

Increasingly, people “done with Christianity” are showing up in spiritual direction. White...
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This Kinda Contemplative Life
by Ed Cyzewski
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Which Kind of Anxious Christian Are You?

For years I described myself as an anxious Christian, especially when it came to prayer. I always...
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Zach Hoag Is Uncategorized
by Zach Hoag
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The Ghost of Christmas Present has a word for U.S. Christians

A Merry mic-drop. These are the days of American Evangelicalism's great revealing: a moral and...
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