Aug 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
You’re probably familiar with statements such as, “we don’t GO to church. We ARE the church.” There are similar ones that go something like this: “Church is not what we do when we gather on Sunday mornings for an hour or so. Church is not a place or a building. It’s...
Aug 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
From Abba Isaak the Syrian: Even if such words as wrath, anger, hatred, and many meager others are pressed into speaking of the Creator, we should not suppose that He ever does anything in anger or hatred or zeal. Many such figures are employed in the...
Aug 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning ...
Aug 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
[Note from editor: Logan Runnalls experience with and thoughts about melancholy and depression are breakthroughs in the field. Please visit his blog at intothevalley.wordpress.com]I now realize that what I have called depression for so long is...
Aug 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor...
Aug 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last week I spent three unforgettable days with my family in Cambodia. There we saw signs of Jesus’ Kingdom shining in a land still under the shadow of death. I now find myself thinking daily what it would look like for the light of Christ to...
