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C.S. Lewis: Three Anchors of Christian Spirituality
What do we do when we feel ourselves at a standstill or in adversity?
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Longing to Change
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Amma Theodora: Only Humility is Victorious
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François Fénelon: Forgetting Self is Beautiful
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Longing to Change
Embracing a new paradigm: my shift from transactional Christianity to a training faith
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Amma Matrona: Escaping Temptation?
We never graduate from temptation — it never vanishes; it must be vanquished
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Francis de Sales: Are You Too Attached to Your Spiritual Practices?
What to do when the means become the end?
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Growing Forever
Aslan, the Great Lion, was right: Every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
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Amma Theodora: Only Humility is Victorious
Spiritual practices do not produce humility, but they prepare us for it.
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Jeanne Guyon: Always in the Hands of Love
Vicissitudes form and mature the interior
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God’s Presence on Good Friday
Can I see the God who suffers?
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The Inward Odyssey
The Inward Odyssey
Brief posts that trace spiritual formation in the Christian tradition with a focus on the inner transformation that happens along the Threefold Way. Sent Fridays.
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