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Choosing to Be Present in Suffering
For people like me—for people who are white and live in affluence and stability—stories like that of George Floyd are easy to ignore. In the past, I have told myself that it is voyeuristic to enter into a story about a man who lived far away in a context I won’t ever know personally. I have told myself that…
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Thinking WITH God
The following is an excerpt from Renovated: God, Dallas Willard, and the Church That Transforms. It captures Jim Wilder’s discussions with Dallas Willard on attachment…
Attached to Salvation
Dallas’s mind raced ahead of mine in our conversations about attachment. He wondered, “Is salvation itself a new and active attachment with God that forms and transforms our identities?” In the human brain, identity and character are formed by…
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Waiting and Grieving with Honesty
My husband, Robb had been gone for maybe two weeks when my young boys and I packed up for a trip back to Ohio. I…
How to Write Like a River
One of the biggest misconceptions about writers is that they sit around and think up Important Literary Things and that when they’re done, they sit…
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A Place to Listen to Our Lives and the Spirit
From the very beginning of God’s Word, we discover an incredible truth. In Genesis 1:26-27, we read: Then God said, “Let us make humankind in…
The Two Commissions – Work and Rest
God did more than simply create us to be in close relationships. When God created us and when Jesus died on the cross for us,…