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.…
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” —Jesus As I journeyed with my desire and with a good spiritual…
“We do not know God by thinking, but by encountering.” –John of the Cross As my director and I transitioned…
“A spiritual director is one who helps another recognize and follow the inspirations of grace in his life, in order…
“Too frequently we think we have to do spectacular things. Yet if we remember that the sea is actually made…
“The reason we do not see God is the faintness of our desire.” –Meister Eckhart Truth be told, it was…
New leadership is needed for new times, but it will not come from finding more wiley ways to manipulate the…
Lee Ann Waters Thornton, of Austin, Texas, died Thursday November 9, 2023 after a courageous seven-year battle with endometrial cancer.…
The Spirit helps us in our weakness…for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very…
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