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Posted on June 26, 2025June 25, 2025

Write Your Own Psalm: a spiritual formation exercise 

Here is a resource that my wife, Kelly, and I developed as a spiritual formation tool for prayer. (You can also download this as a PDF here.) Prayer is made up of both speaking and listening. We listen to God and we listen to ourselves. We hear God speak and we respond as well. One …

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Posted on July 20, 2024April 18, 2025

The Weekend Wanderer: 20 July 2024

"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …

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Posted on March 30, 2024April 21, 2025

The Weekend Wanderer: 30 March 2024

"The Weekend Wanderer" is a weekly curated selection of news, stories, resources, and media on the intersection of faith and culture for you to explore through your weekend. Wander through these links however you like and in any order you like. Disclaimer: I do not necessarily agree with all the views expressed within these articles …

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Posted on November 30, 2016November 27, 2016

Christ Speaks in Stories

This from Christian Wiman in his moving book My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Christ speaks in stories as a way of preparing his followers to stake their lives on a story, because existence is not a puzzle to be solved, but a narrative to be inherited and undergone and transformed person by person. …

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