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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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Latinas in Leadership, as Penned by Kristy Robinson

I've got another treat for you: meet Kristy Robinson, a friend from the Ruby Woo Pilgrimage and...
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The Doxology Project
by Brad Roth
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The Holy Art of Sleeping

When we sleep, we are releasing life and history to the God who never sleeps, who is always at...
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Dry Bones
by Kathleen Mulhern
RECENT POST:
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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Formed by a Dream (Some Thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr.)

I wasn’t old enough to have seen Martin Luther King, Jr. at work while he was alive. However, by...
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The Fluency of Hope
by Alia Joy
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To Feel Again: The Tedium of Surviving

More than anything, surviving is tedious. It is a million small breaths strung together. It is a...
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Joe Puentes
by Joe Puentes
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"When Christmas Smelled Like Dung"

"When Christmas Smelled Like Dung" Nothing is untouched from the smell of hay and dung. Even my...
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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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Water Into Wine: Grace in the Season of Epiphany

They feast on the abundance of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your...
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The Porch
by Jerusalem Jackson Greer
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This Christmas, forget the shoebox

Let’s become critical thinkers about how and why and what we give (or, how to be generous without...
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Spiritual Direction 101
by Teresa Blythe
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Works Without Faith Can be Deadening, Too

Within the Christian context, most of us know the passage in James that says “faith without works...
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This Kinda Contemplative Life
by Ed Cyzewski
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Why Evangelicals Resist Contemplative Prayer, Part 1: Mission (Yes, Really)

If there’s any group of people who could benefit from the grounding awareness of God and the...
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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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