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The Slow Way: Lent As Checking Our Spiritual Pulse
Lent has zero extra powers. It is simply a season that has already been set aside for us to participate in that movement of destabilization and…
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Micha Boyett
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The Slow Way: On Increasing and Deepening "Our Capacity for God"
If we don’t have a harmful view of ourselves, what tips us toward the divine? How do young people prioritize connection with God outside of fear?
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Micha Boyett
The Slow Way: Good News! January is not the time to change your life.
Epiphany actually asks very little of us except what winter asks: To sustain ourselves, to wait well, to look for the light in these dark days, to open…
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Micha Boyett
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The Slow Way: Red Car, a Birthday Reflection
Even in all that aches, the stuff that marks our seasons comes and goes. We pick each other up and move along from place to place.
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The Slow Way: Hildegard and the "Greening Power of God"
In our suffering, in our sorrow, in the parts of our lives that look hopeless, there is the "greening power of God" right there beside us, inviting us…
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The Slow Way: Epiphany and Hospitality
The Christian faith has never seen love as a finite resource. It has always been ever-multiplying. Love begets more love.
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The Slow Way: On Becoming What We Love, A Series
If we want to transform our lives, if we want our faith to flow into every aspect—our work, our community, and our family life—we need to attend to what…
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The Slow Way: An Easter Morning Practice
A personal liturgy for Easter
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The Slow Way: Jesus and the Gleam
The work of beholding one another, of passing on a loving gaze, of acknowledging the holy humanity of the people in our orbits—this requires we look up…
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The Slow Way: Epiphany and Deeper Pleasure
Jesus invites his followers to a new kind of joy: A life that neither flits through “senseless pleasure,” nor despairs in the in the pious religion of…
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The Slow Way: The Silencing of Women. The Yes of God.
I left the Southern Baptist Church because when I was thirteen God asked me if I would leave everything. And I said yes.
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The Slow Way: On Longing For What We Already Are
Miraslov Volf says, "When the fragile identity crumbles, we are finally free to be ourselves."
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