Uncategorized Talking with the other side by Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/talking-with-the-other-side
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude empowers us "Gratitude empowers us. It makes joy and love possible. It rearranges the way we see and experience what is all around us. Gratitude does not fix things. It transforms how…
Father James Martin God’s voice or mine? 7 tips on what to listen to in prayer by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2021/01/21/james-martin-book-excerpt-prayer-god-239756
Brian McLaren Good Fruit Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: We pray that God will create something new and beautiful in and among us for the good of…
Barbara Brown Taylor You do not know Preachers learn early on that we preach the sermons we most need to hear, and that was true of the one I had just preached as well. The story of…
Brandan Robertson Digital Deception: How We Ended Up Here And What We Can Do To Save Ourselves by Brandan Robertson https://www.patheos.com/blogs/faithfulprogress/2021/01/digital-deception-how-we-ended-up-here-and-what-we-can-do-to-save-ourselves/
Sophfronia Scott The Heart and the Capitol Attack by Sophfronia Scott https://sophfronia.com/the-heart-and-the-capitol-attack/
Religion News Service What four strangers of different faiths learned while living together during a pandemic from Religion News Service https://religionnews.com/2021/01/12/what-four-strangers-of-different-faiths-learned-while-living-together-during-a-pandemic/
Diana Butler Bass Gratitude is structure When I started on a path to a more grateful life, I never imagined that the journey would lead to reconsidering ethics and politics, yet it seems somewhat inevitable now.…
Brian McLaren Ortho- Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: Our faith is vain and self-centered if it only brings blessing for us or to us. It also…
Religion News Service How to make a pilgrimage into 2021 We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us. By Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://religionnews.com/2020/12/31/how-to-make-a-pilgrimage-into-2021/
Barbara Brown Taylor There is a place where human knowing runs out “We know,” Nicodemus says to Jesus when he first comes into the room. “You do not know,” Jesus says to Nicodemus right before he leaves. If you interpret this as…
New York Times Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. from the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html
Amanda Henderson An intractable problem We know this, the call to love our neighbor as ourselves. We have heard it many times. But do we live it? Do we live it in our personal lives…
Barbara Brown Taylor Entrusting yourself to God As variously as people describe it, they all discover that if you are determined to walk the way of Jesus, there comes a time when you must leave the lower…
Uncategorized The Pilgrimage of Faith By Wes Granberg-Michaelson https://blog.reformedjournal.com/2020/11/17/the-pilgrimage-of-faith/
Diana Butler Bass The larger social consequences of gratitude Social scientists and psychologists argue that gratitude will make us happier, develop greater resiliency, and provide better outcomes of health and well-being. If gratitude is but an individualistic practice, however,…
Parker Palmer Five Habits to Heal the Heart of Democracy by Parker Palmer https://www.globalonenessproject.org/library/articles/five-habits-heal-heart-democracy
Brian McLaren The Rhetoric That Frees Us by Brian McLaren https://brianmclaren.net/what-i-shared-on-election-eve/
Father James Martin Jesuit tools to help you survive the election (and its aftermath) by Father James Martin https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/11/02/jesuit-spirituality-election-2020-james-martin
Amanda Henderson Definitions From “Holy Chaos: Creating Connections in Divisive Times” by Amanda Henderson - Chalice Press I begin by laying the groundwork for our shared labor with definitions, as defined by Merriam-Webster…
