Tag: stillness

Why Loving Your Enemies is Hard, and How You Can Do It Three Minutes at a Time

Why Loving Your Enemies is Hard, and How You Can Do It Three Minutes at a Time

This week, Pastor Brent Levy, of The Local Church and I recorded a short loving-kindness meditation break for Advent. Listen here.  From The Local Church: Advent means “coming” or “arrival,” and it’s a season in which we not only wait for the hope of Christmas and the coming 

How Stillness Can Sustain Our Activism

How Stillness Can Sustain Our Activism

This excerpt comes from my latest Sojourners piece. For Christians engaged in justice work, 2018 has been another dumpster fire. We’re exhausted. We’re feeling compassion fatigue. We’re clinging to hope. Activism at this speed is not sustainable, but many of us are unwilling to entertain the alternative. 

Be Still: How a “Busy” Woman Made Time for Contemplation

In Saffron Cross, I wrote about my husband’s morning devotional practice, a routine stemming from his service as a Hindu monk and priest. It wasn’t until I met Fred that I began to discern what such a practice might look like for me, and when 

Stealing Back Sabbath Series: Sabbath Opportunities

  Friends: It’s a honor to host our second writer of the “Stealing Back Sabbath” series, Kristen Vincent. Like Kate Rademacher’s call to Sabbath discipline, Kristen reminds us that Sabbath is a opportunity to be cherished, not a sentence to be endured. And, you might