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Stubborn Prayer

There are few things that feel better than answered prayer. A crisis arises. An illness flares. A conflict erupts. You go to prayer, asking God to intervene, to heal, to restore. And in due course, the crisis is averted, the patient recovers, the conflict is resolved....

Showing Concern

As a family of believers, we are called to care for one another in a variety of ways. In the letters of the New Testament, believers are urged to “love one another” (17 times), “encourage one another” (6 times), “serve one another” (5 times), “be patient with one...

How Good To Center Down!

[Editor’s note: This poem is by Howard Thurman, an American author, philosopher, theologian, educator, and leader who helped provide the spiritual depth of the civil rights movement. It offers an invitation to the meditative moment in which we can “be still and know”...

Soul Nudges

[Editor’s note: The following piece, by occasional columnist Heather Burke Cody of north Georgia, invites us to pay attention to “soul nudges,” which I might call nudges of the Spirit. It has been edited for length.] I was thrift shopping for dorm stuff. The cashier...

Salvation is a Life

“…he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.” Titus 3:5 A story has circulated about a famous skeptic, who on his deathbed, allegedly tried to hedge...