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Transformation

What is Jesus’ ‘Theory of Change’?

March 23, 2023 by David Anderson 6 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Family, Grace, Lent, Transformation

Why Is Prayer Such A Struggle?

March 19, 2023 by David Anderson 5 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Belief, Breathing, Change, Daily Practice, Grace, Healing, Lent, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Surrender, Transformation

How Can We Get Beyond The Bitterness and Division In Our World?

March 7, 2023 by David Anderson 5 Comments

The virulent conflict we experience in our world is fueled by a need on both sides to win at all costs, to be right and—even more important—to prove others wrong. We all have the “talking points” committed to memory. We can rally the facts and marshal the stats to “take down” another person. Yet even […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Awareness, Character, Community, Lent, Transformation

How Can I Find God?

March 5, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

There was once a young boy who would wander in the woods. His father became concerned as he went deeper and deeper into the forest each time, so one day he said to the boy, “I notice that every day you walk into the woods. Why do you go there?”  The boy replied, “I go […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Daily Practice, Lent, Nature/Creation, Now/ the Present, Seeing, Silence, Transformation

What Does It Mean To Repent?

February 27, 2023 by David Anderson 4 Comments

The original word for repent is not so much lost, as destroyed in translation. Wherever in the New Testament we see the word “repent,” it’s a gross mistranslation of metanoia. The problem seems to have begun with Jerome, who in 382 translated the Greek New Testament into the Latin Vulgate. When Jerome got to Matthew […]

Filed Under: Awareness, Change, Daily Practice, Grace, Lent, Mercy, Now/ the Present, Prayer/Meditation, Seeing, Surrender, Transformation

Behold, I Make All Things New

January 5, 2023 by David Anderson 14 Comments

On the first day of the New Year I find myself sanding and painting two bedside tables. This was not my idea. We got them years ago at a church rummage sale, and they were old and beat up then. Maybe just call Amazon. But Pam suggested we simply paint the tops, and the two […]

Filed Under: Change, Love, Patience, Transformation

The Power of the Act

April 28, 2015 by David Anderson 4 Comments

Abraham Joshua Heschel said, “The act teaches you the meaning of the act.” This is pure wisdom, but we have mostly counseled its reverse. We have tried to teach people the meaning first to see if we might coax them into the act. If we taught people to believe that God calls us to love […]

Filed Under: Belief, Daily Practice, Faith in Action, Happiness, Love, Service, Transformation

Letting Beliefs Go

April 21, 2015 by David Anderson 8 Comments

This morning I read this: A broad group of scholars is beginning to demonstrate that religious belief and factual belief are indeed different kinds of mental creatures. First of all, they have noticed that the very language people use changes when they talk about religious beings, and the changes mean that they think about their […]

Filed Under: Adult Spirituality, Awareness, Belief, Faith/Trust, Letting Go, Now/ the Present, Surrender, Transformation

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