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What do you dream about? What captures your imagination in the middle of the day? What secret longings do you have that you keep only to yourself or a close friend? Each of us have longings that arise within the depths of our souls. It is part of what it means to be human. As …
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Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and, more recently, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, has become a helpful voice to many within contemporary Christian writing. Miller is a writer of memoirs, "narratives composed of personal experience" according to Merriam-Webster. He works out what Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite authors, meant when …
[About four years ago, I wrote this article for Relevant Magazine's online edition. Since the article is no longer available through their web-site, I thought I'd re-post it here.] Community ... community ... community. Everywhere you turn, inside and outside of the church, people are obsessed with talking about community. This is a good thing …
Dr. Wess Stafford, president and CEO of Compassion International, shared a very personal and intimate message on pain in leadership. It would be impossible to convey Stafford's story here. In short, he spoke of how, as a missionary kid, he experienced immense physical and emotional abuse while at a Christian boarding school. However, it was …
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Matthew Erickson 