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17 illustrations — Illustrations from diverse theological traditions
In 2019, a seminary professor received a stage-three cancer diagnosis. His colleagues expected devastation. Instead, they found him at his desk the next morning, Bible...
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In the monastery chapel at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night vigils when the wind howled against the Kentucky hills, rattling windows...
In John 14:27, Jesus declares, "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to...
In her autobiography, Teresa of Avila describes the soul's interior castle — room after room leading deeper toward the center where God dwells. Most of...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night prayer when a violent thunderstorm shook the abbey walls. The windows rattled,...
When Jesus spoke, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you," He was not offering a concept to be grasped but a...
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father in spirit and truth, He was dismantling every velvet rope religion had...
In the early days of orchestral music, before electronic tuners existed, every musician depended on a single tuning fork. Its tone was fixed, unyielding, determined...
In the early days of American westward expansion, government surveyors drove brass benchmarks into solid bedrock across the continent. These small, unassuming discs became the...
In 1978, a structural engineer in Kansas City discovered that a contractor had quietly modified the steel connection design for the Hyatt Regency hotel walkways....
In 1923, J. Gresham Machen stood before Princeton Seminary and warned that the greatest threat to the church was not persecution but the slow replacement...
In downtown Portland, a vacant lot sat wedged between a luxury condo development and a Section 8 housing complex. For years it collected broken glass...
In 2019, a small congregation in Portland set a long wooden table on the sidewalk outside their church every Sunday evening. They called it the...
When Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gives," He was not offering...
When Jesus told His disciples, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world...
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was dismantling every boundary religion had constructed...
When Jesus told the Samaritan woman that true worshipers would worship the Father "in spirit and truth," He was dismantling the very boundaries that kept...