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Shifting Your Perspective

March 14th, 2022
When was the last time your worldview was challenged or changed? What happened to shift the story for you? Often these shifts can result in some powerfully transformative experiences. A shift in how we identify with or see my story and our story can transform how we live inside of The Story — how we act with

Letting Go to Live in Truth

March 13th, 2022
What does hitting rock bottom look like for you? It’s different for everyone, but it usually comes with the realization that our addictions and attachments are not just controlling us — they might even be destroying us. Going Inward to Let Go Christian contemplation explores the practice of letting go by

At-One-Ment: Ending the Sacrificial Pattern

February 14th, 2022
Religion should draw our spiritual lives closer to love and freedom. How do we feel God’s profound love in times of suffering? How do we feel connected to true freedom when so many are oppressed—often because of religion? The Franciscans never accepted substitutional atonement theory—the story that Jesus came

Standing on the Edge of the Inside

February 14th, 2022
On the journey to discover inner and outer freedom, many of us find that the true center isn’t really in the middle at all—it lies at the edges. Richard Rohr describes being at the “edge of the inside” as “a way of being in the world that is utterly free and grounded in the compassion of God.” Standing

Holding the Tension of Opposites

February 14th, 2022
What happens when the stories of our early lives no longer resonate with what we’re experiencing now? The death of a someone close, condemnation from a once-loving church, an uphill battle for peace and justice — when dogma no longer feels right, when belief no longer aligns with life, it’s time to seek new

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