Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
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Aug 21, 2020
Special Prayers for Back to School
I began writing Collect Prayers the second week of March, around the time that the CDC recommended no gatherings of 50 people or more. At...
Aug 17, 2020
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Aug 13, 2020
The Stories of Others
In the 1960s, Robert Coles was the child psychologist who treated Ruby Bridges, six years old, black, integrating a white elementary...
Aug 11, 2020
Gardening 101: Fallow Time
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Jul 31, 2020
North Wind Manor: Update
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Jul 28, 2020
Taper of Grief
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Jul 27, 2020
New Speakers & Performers Announced for Hutchmoot: Homebound
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Jul 23, 2020
New Reading Group: Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins
Now open for enrollment, Belmont University Professor Steve Guthrie leads a reading group for John M. Perkins’ powerful book Let Justice...
Jul 22, 2020
To Sit with an Onion
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Jul 21, 2020
Spirit & Sound, Part 6: The Man Who Read with His Mouth Closed (And the Spirit Who Didn’t
[Editor’s note: click here to read Part 5: The Preposition of Love.] “We believe in the Holy Spirit. . . Who has spoken through the...
Jul 17, 2020
Love and Assent
While reading Wendell Berry’s story collection, That Distant Land, I was struck by this description of a character named Martha Elizabeth...
Jul 15, 2020
The Door on Half-Bald Hill: Now Available on Audiobook
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Jul 14, 2020
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Jul 13, 2020
Spirit & Sound, Part 5: The Preposition of Love
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Jul 9, 2020
Gardening 101: Good Work is Boring
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Jul 6, 2020
Spirit & Sound, Part 4: Sounding, Re-sounding, and the Antiphonal Shape of the World
[Editor’s note: click here to read Part 3: God in Motion.] I believe in the Holy Spirit . . . Together with the Father and the Son He is...
Jul 3, 2020
Knowledge, Mystery & The Spiritual Frontier
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. —Habakkuk 2:14 A while back I...
Jul 1, 2020
Spirit & Sound, Part 3: God in Motion
[Editor’s note: click here to read Part 2: The Breath Between Us.] We believe in the Holy Spirit, The Lord, the Giver of Life, Who...
Jun 30, 2020
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Jun 29, 2020
“A White Man’s Lament for the Death of God’s Beloved”
We’re grateful to share this new song from Andrew Peterson today, and grateful he wrote it. Link to the video and full lyrics are...
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