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This devotional prayer emphasizes the importance of viewing personal experiences through the lens of divine love and justice, as highlighted in Micah 6:8. It encourages believers to engage with challenging topics like sexuality in a way that promotes compassion and transformation, ultimately working towards a more just and peaceful world.
In her masterwork *The Interior Castle*, Teresa of Avila describes a season when prayer itself seems to dissolve. The words stop coming. The feelings of...
In 1996, Dr. Diana Bianchi and her team at Tufts University made a remarkable discovery. During pregnancy, cells from the mother cross the placenta and...
In 1873, a Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii, and into a colony of eight...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about her journey back to faith, she described confession not as a transaction — say the right words, punch your...
This devotional reflects on the role of women in church leadership and encourages engagement with this topic through a lens of love and justice. It emphasizes the importance of personal transformation to effect change in the world, aligning one's actions with God's character of compassion and justice.
Imagine the scene: Father Gabriel, his heart pounding like a drum, stands at the edge of a dense jungle, the air thick with humidity and the sweet, earthy scent of damp soil. The sun, hanging low in the sky, casts...
In 2014, Margaret Alston sat alone in a duplex in Macon, Georgia, convinced her life had narrowed to its final, quiet chapter. Her husband Carl...
In the summer of 1987, Margaret Ellison of Boone, North Carolina, hung a hand-sewn banner from the front porch railing the day her husband Robert...
In *The Incredibles*, there’s a pivotal moment when Syndrome, the film's villain, unveils his chilling master plan: to make every person “super” through technology, proclaiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” It’s a stark reminder of how easy...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn, New York, and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does...
In our fast-paced world, we often find ourselves navigating a complex landscape of morality, much like a sailor charting a course through treacherous waters. Picture a young woman named Sarah, a recent college graduate, who took a job in a...
As the sun dips below the horizon and casts a warm glow over the day’s end, we find ourselves in a sacred moment – the evening prayer. It’s a time for reflection, a time when we can gently exhale the...
In 1969, Maya Angelou published *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings* with Random House, her first book. In it, she told the world what...
In 2019, a seven-year-old girl named Lily Chen was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Rochester, Minnesota. Her family had moved from Taiwan only two...
In our tumultuous world, where conflict often feels like the default mode of engagement, the call to *enemy love* is as radical as it is necessary. Jesus, quoting the greatest commandment in Matthew 22:37-39, invites us into a loving relationship...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana, with 175-mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge that swallowed entire neighborhoods. In the Lower...
Imagine, if you will, the scene in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965. The air is thick with tension, electric with anticipation. A myriad of voices rises together, a chorus of hope and defiance, marching toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge. But...
On a clear, crisp autumn morning, I found myself wandering the woods near my home. The leaves, painted in hues of crimson and gold, whispered secrets to the breeze as I walked. Each step crunched softly beneath my feet, a...
We read Genesis 5:1-32 as an account that emphasizes the continuity and faithfulness of God’s plan throughout generations. This genealogy, beginning with Adam and leading to Noah, highlights the dignity of human life created in the image of God, as the text begins with 'This is the book of the gener
We read Genesis 17:1-27 as a pivotal moment in the Abrahamic covenant, where God Almighty — El Shaddai — reiterates His promises to Abraham and institutes circumcision as the covenant sign. This passage underscores the sovereignty of God in choosing Abraham to be the father of many nations and the p
In 2019, master woodworker Jimmy DiResta nearly walked away from his craft. After twenty years building custom furniture in his New York workshop, a warehouse...
In the summer of 2021, a small town in the Midwest faced an unprecedented drought that left crops shriveled and farmers desperate. Amidst the parched fields and cracked earth, a local church organized a community meeting. The pastor, a gentle...
On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida slammed into Port Fourchon, Louisiana, with 150-mile-per-hour winds. The bayou communities south of New Orleans watched the Gulf swallow...