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Unlikely Spiritual Practices

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Your Turn: Our Unlikely Spiritual Practices

A Community Conversation + Giveaway || Part 6 of Unlikely Spiritual Practices

The Unlikely Spiritual Practice of Coming Alive

Unlikely Spiritual Practices Part 5

Ep. 54: Coming Alive

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The Unlikely Spiritual Practice of Loving Your Body

Unlikely Spiritual Practices Part 4

Ep. 53: Loving Your Body

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The Unlikely Spiritual Practice of Wonder & Delight

Unlikely Spiritual Practices Series Part 3

Ep. 52: Wonder and Delight

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We are not trying to become worthy of grace; we are learning to live as though grace is already true

Unlikely Spiritual Practices Part 1

Ep. 51: Unlikely Spiritual Practices Part 2

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🎉 Announcing our new series: Unlikely Spiritual Practices

This one is for the Quiet Time Drop-Outs

The Angry Breath Prayers

I refuse to believe that I have to tidy up my humanity to be in conversation with Creator.

In Praise Of

A litany for today

In which I visit the seashore in the dark and have a few thoughts about love

We do see through the glass darkly, that’s just true, but we are experiencing love anyway and it is utterly sufficient for me.

Hope is a team sport

An interview with K.J. Ramsey about The Place Between Our Pains: A Memoir Of What Joy Can Survive

Maybe this is why gentleness is a sign of God’s love.

I am beginning to bless them all, even all the ways I’ve loved God without their permission

From tv shows to food, music to reads, these are all the good things of right now

+ you can weigh in on the topic of our next deep-dive series

This is for the things we don’t post

This blessing knows there are depths to which we descend alone.

Everything, All Of It

I would walk any aisle in any church now and say, yes, I want to re-dedicate my life to this kind of love all over again.

The Worst Marriage Advice

And hopefully some better advice instead

25 New Breath Prayers

The liturgy of loving others / is a joy to me

The Books I've Been Reading Lately

My recent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads plus all the books I finished recently

You Asked, I Answered

Our yearly Q&A on everything from making time for rest to the practices for staying gentle, from skincare to Instagram follows to why Christians believe differently about things and beyond

I am going to live like there is hope

I’ll act like the underdog of love always comes from behind to win by total upset.

70+ Favourite Books for Kids

By request: our family read-alouds for little and big kids, a few faith-based books, and even the solitary reading faves for quiet afternoons

For the Congregation of Veronicas

A few thoughts on Holy Week, the gift of tears, still caring, and everywhere we can see Jesus right now

How to carry all the heavy things

A conversation about Counterweights with author Shannan Martin

Keep Not Quitting

Sometimes the greatest act of faith we have in our arsenal is our stubbornness

The Prayer You Wrote For Each Other

We have all offered something to this prayer, even if it was simply our willingness to be present to it

An Invitation: Collaborative Prayer Circle

You don’t need to pretend you aren’t angry, that you aren’t cynical or afraid, that you aren’t feeling a bit hopeless or uncomfortable or envious or tired.

"I don't want an easy faith, I want a brave faith."

Celebrating Rachel Held Evans' "Braving the Truth" + The Superlatives

A Simple Lent for Everyone Who Doesn’t Really Have Much Left in the Tank Right Now

A 40-day guide for those who want to observe Lent but honestly feel like they might cry if they have to add one more thing to the To-Do list

For those who need a respite of (minor) goodness

from Olympics joy to the reels I sent to my friends, a delicious cold night recipe to a movie I loved, and more, these are the good things of this winter so far

What I've been reading lately

My recent ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ reads plus all the books I finished recently from rom-coms to fantasy to spiritual living to poetry

For when your heart is heavy but your resistance is steady

More than 50 new breath prayers to develop courage and resilience in us that we may walk in love and bring forth justice

How an old legend is giving me hope right now

Or, Tending to the Fire

How Sesame Street taught me something important about prayer

Or, maybe it was Brother Lawrence

Announcing: Braving the Truth

For the first time, Rachel Held Evans' online essays will be available in a book

Open the Door

Or, A Prayer for Welcoming the New Year