Category: spiritual formation
spiritual formation
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The Church’s Lost Center
When Christ is displaced, good things become distorted. Doctrine hardens into ideology, action becomes activism, affection becomes sentimentality, and politics… READ MORE
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2 Peter 1:4 – Hard Sayings of the Bible
2 Peter 1:4 once felt like a dangerous verse to me. But read in light of union with Christ, the… READ MORE
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The Keswick Deeper Life Tradition
Tracing the Keswick tradition has helped me see a larger pattern in my own journey. Different writers and traditions may… READ MORE
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John 1: It’s Not About Me
John the Baptist reminds us that every true journey includes voices along the road that point us beyond ourselves. He… READ MORE
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Wrestling with the Mystery of Participation in the Divine Life
Different Christian teachers describe the indwelling life of Christ in different ways. Is the Christian life moral imitation or participation… READ MORE
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Transitive Communion and the Communion of Saints
I keep returning to a simple and unsettling thought: if I am in communion with Christ and you are in… READ MORE
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Teaching as an Act of Love
What if teaching is not about platform or passion, but love? I am learning that the call is not to… READ MORE
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“Learning to think conscientiously for oneself is on of the most important intellectual responsibilities in life. …carefully listen and learn strive toward being a mature thinker and a well-adjusted and gracious person.”
~ Kenneth R. Samples
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Exploring philosophy, science, culture, and faith, this blog invites readers to think deeply, question assumptions, and grow toward wisdom. With reflections that weave together reason, imagination, and lived experience, it seeks not easy answers but a more thoughtful way of engaging the world—and our responsibility within it.
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