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16 illustrations — Illustrations from diverse theological traditions
A seminary student once approached Dr. B.B. Warfield after a lecture on the doctrine of Scripture, troubled not by textual criticism but by a failing...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that prayer is not about getting God to do what we want but about opening ourselves to what God is...
In the desert tradition, the abbas and ammas spoke of a monk who spent thirty years in solitary prayer. When a visitor finally sought him...
In 1526, William Tyndale published his English New Testament, knowing it could cost him his life. But what strikes the careful reader is not just...
In the original Greek of Philippians 4:6, Paul does not offer a suggestion. He issues a present active imperative — "mēden merimnate" — stop being...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment Thomas Merton called "the point of nothingness" — that raw, undefended place where every title,...
A shortwave radio operator in rural Alaska depends on precise frequencies published by the Federal Communications Commission. These frequencies are not suggestions or approximations —...
In 1881, the great Princeton theologian B.B. Warfield — whose towering intellect defended the absolute inerrancy of Scripture against a generation of skeptics — did...
Thomas Merton once described a moment in his Louisville hermitage when he realized his hours of centering prayer had not made him holier than the...
Rachel Held Evans once wrote that the Table is the great equalizer — the place where we stop performing and start belonging. Philippians 2:3-4 invites...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about the kingdom of God, she often returned to the image of a table — who gets a seat, who...
In centering prayer, there comes a moment when every thought, every ambition, every carefully constructed image of ourselves dissolves into silence. Thomas Merton called this...
A community organizer in Portland spent three years fighting for affordable housing — showing up at city council meetings, knocking on doors, writing op-eds. She...
In 2018, a progressive congregation in Portland decided to partner with a local Indigenous community on a land acknowledgment project. The church leaders arrived at...
A friend once told me she stopped praying after she deconstructed. Not because she lost God, but because she lost the script. The formulaic prayers...
In a church basement in Portland, a collective of artists spent three months painting a mural depicting their neighborhood — the halal grocery, the queer...
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