Articles

Article Renewed Through Spiritual Self-Care
- By Lucille Zimmerman
- Posted on May 9th, 2013
Spirituality and well-being Being spiritual is not about self-sacrifice. It’s about self-care and paying attention to your inner pilot light. If you’ve ever made a…
Article Preparing the Way: Practices for Cultivating Faith in the Home
- By Mary Jane Pierce Norton
- Posted on May 9th, 2013
Meals in our home begin with this question, “Whose turn is it?” The privilege of offering the prayer before each meal rotates from one family member to another. This…
Article Distilling Stillness
- By Kirk Byron Jones
- Posted on May 8th, 2013
Why Stillness Makes Me Weep I am used to it now: crying during my morning times of stillness. It doesn't happen all the time; when it does I just let the tears come. Why do I…
Article Loss and Change in Rural America
- By Alex Joyner
- Posted on May 7th, 2013
Fluttering in the Wind Mary Lucier wants you to feel life on the Great Plains. In her mixed-media art installation entitled Plains of Sweet Regret, she uses five screens in a…
Article Call No One Profane (Acts 11:1-18)
- By Douglas E. Wingeier
- Posted on May 6th, 2013
In Acts 10–11, Luke introduces Cornelius as a pious Gentile centurion who had a vision from God telling him to send for Peter who could offer a message that would save him…
Article Let's Not Overlook the Ascension
- By Josh Tinley
- Posted on May 1st, 2013
Thursday May 9 is the Feast of the Ascension, at least in the West. (Eastern Orthodox Christians will celebrate it on June 13). It is the fortieth day after Easter and the day on…