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Cynthia’s Story: The impact of a Transforming Community in the life of a pastor
My name is Cynthia and I am an ordained United Methodist pastor. Transforming Community came at the right time for me. I was looking for a spiritual director when I…
It is the Lord!
Happy Easter Monday, friends! Once again, Ruth invites us to celebrate the risen Jesus through five powerful post-resurrection encounters. We’ve reflected on these stories before, yet they continue to speak.…
By Nathan Albert For the last two years, I traveled to a monastery outside of Chicago every three months for…
“At a certain age our lives simplify and we need have only three phrases left in our spiritual vocabulary: Thank…
“Every movement toward the humiliation of the false self, if we accept it, is a step toward freedom and inner…
When Anjuli Seth Nayak arrived for the first retreat of her Transforming Community, she was clearly a force to be…
“I have lived too long where I am reachable.”–Rumi It is a wonderful thing to be invited—especially when the invitation…
“If we don’t come apart for while, we will come apart after awhile.” –Dallas Willard Brad is a pastor whose…
In October of 2004, I gave each of my colleagues at International Justice Mission two gifts: a blank leather journal…
“We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.” —Bishop Ken…
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