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  • Of All The Things You Have Done In Your Life, Which Is The One You Would Most Like To Undo?

    David Anderson

    March 30, 2023
    Of All The Things You Have Done In Your Life, Which Is The One You Would  Most Like To Undo?

    Plenty of people, especially near the end of life, claim they have no regrets. We ought to feel sorry for them. To regret something we’ve done is to acknowledge a higher principle than we were able to live up to. Regret can strengthen our moral character: Never again will I do something like that. If […]

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  • What If I’ve Lost My Way?

    David Anderson

    March 28, 2023
    What If I’ve Lost My Way?

    Speaking of her early stage of faith, writer and retreat leader Paula D’Arcy shared a dream in which the kitchen table of her childhood disappeared. That table symbolized the beautiful security of her early years. It was the heart of her childhood home, where she learned her Baltimore Catechism, mastered every question, and came to […]

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  • Are You Spiritually Bypassing?

    David Anderson

    March 26, 2023
    Are You Spiritually Bypassing?

    Every once in a while, you hear a term that perfectly describes something you’ve experienced but didn’t have a name for. That’s how I felt when someone used the phrase “spiritual bypass,” coined by psychologist John Welwood in the 80s. He defined it as a “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or […]

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  • What is Jesus’ ‘Theory of Change’?

    David Anderson

    March 23, 2023
    What is Jesus’ ‘Theory of Change’?

    Jesus did not try to change one person. He certainly didn’t set out to change the world. We hear a lot these days about “theory of change.” It’s a term in non-profit, philanthropy and development that describes the organization’s goal of social change and the step-by-step process for achieving it. I’m sure it does all […]

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  • Are You The Person You Say You Are?

    David Anderson

    March 21, 2023
    Are You The Person You Say You Are?

    A few weeks before her mother died, my wife Pam discovered that her mother had been married—and divorced—before she met and married Pam’s father. It was a shock to Pam because, as an only child, she wondered how her mother could have withheld the story of her life. And then, of course, in the light […]

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  • Why Is Prayer Such A Struggle?

    David Anderson

    March 19, 2023
    Why Is Prayer Such A Struggle?

    How I pray is breathe.”  -Thomas Merton I grew up with the slogan, “Prayer changes things,” which I believed. I was just wrong about what got changed. I thought it could change my lot, save my soul, rescue people I cared about. I hoped I could change God’s mind. Not surprisingly, that kind of prayer […]

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  • Why Am I My Own Worst Judge?

    David Anderson

    March 16, 2023
    Why Am I My Own Worst Judge?

    Some years ago, the Dove soap company created a video. At the time, a woman sent me the link because it seemed a profound demonstration of self-judgment. The video shows a forensic sketch artist, asked to draw a series of women based solely on their descriptions. Seated at a drafting table with his back to […]

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  • What Are You Running Away From?

    David Anderson

    March 14, 2023
    What Are You Running Away From?

    On July 13, 1798, William Wordsworth returned to a specific place along the banks of the Wye River that flows through England and Wales. He sits above the murmuring waters, leaning against a dark sycamore tree. Years have passed and now he sees again the orchard trees, the steep and lofty cliffs, the wreaths of […]

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  • What Are You Chasing?

    David Anderson

    March 12, 2023
    What Are You Chasing?

    Renowned preacher and storyteller Fred Craddock swears this happened to him: He was visiting in the home of one of his former students after graduation, and after a great dinner, the young parents excused themselves and hustled the kids off to bed, leaving Fred in the living room with the family pet—a large, sleek greyhound. […]

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