Carolyn Givens, a fellow Cairn alum, continues her reflection on time spent in Asia as a young expat in very different faith communities. The year I was in fourth grade, my ecclesiological world burst open…
Carolyn Givens, a fellow Cairn alum, concludes her reflection on time spent in Asia as a young expat in very different faith communities. I was baptized at age ten in a church my parents helped…
Getting back to the “Journey Through The Faith” series, I will be sharing several reflections from my college faith experience before moving on to post-college years. One of the more mature decisions an eighteen year…
Your heart is still before God. You are meditating, in prayer, focused on your Creator. Then, out of the corner of your eye, you see it. People are running on the highway, cars are stopped.…
This week I am in Faithvillage‘s Contributor Spotlight. They asked me several questions about the blog and about the work I do at IJM. Here’s a sample: If someone is just beginning to introduce liturgy into their worship, what…
Marty: Hey, Doc, we better back up. We don’t have enough road to get up to 88. Doc. Brown: Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads. Probably due to the fact that you watched…
In the introduction to this five-part series, I noted that I’m adopting Charles Van Engen’s ‘reinterpreted’ historical marks of the Church – Unifying, Sanctifying, Reconciling, and Proclaiming – to discuss them under the banner of liturgy.…
One of the worship tools I have really enjoyed for a long time is Pray As You Go, an Ignatian prayer resource. Each day you are led into a time of prayer and meditation with a…
Taking a step into a life advice column, my latest article at Relevant is “You Are More Than Your Resume.” An excerpt: We find ourselves…asking: How is that person on the fancy sheet of paper and the person…
Have you ever tried to do something without preparing? Could you imagine going on a weekend backpack without planning the route or packing a backpack? Going out on in a boat on a lake all…