"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the …
A Prayer of God’s Lavish Love Enfleshed
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be …
Love is a Great Room with a Lot of Doors: grief and love in Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry
I read Wendell Berry's wonderful book, Hannah Coulter, in the past month, and it was a beautifully moving book. I deeply enjoyed so much about it, that I find it difficult to summarize the ways Berry opens the read into human relationships, the significance of grief, generational change, the texture of love, and so much …
Learning God’s Love with St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a Cistercian monk in 12th century France, rose from relative obscurity to wide-ranging influence, shaping many aspects of church life during his time. Born within a family of the lower nobility, Bernard forsook all of that to enter a small monastic community in Cîteaux. Influential even at this stage of his …
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Malcolm Guite, “Our Mother-tongue Is Love” – A Sonnet for Pentecost
Here is Malcolm Guite's poem for Pentecost Sunday, "Our Mother-tongue is Love." This sonnet is taken from Guite's book Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year. Malcolm Guite is an Anglican priest, poet, and songwriter, who served as a Life Fellow and chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge. Today we feel the wind beneath …
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