by Alan Fadling | Feb 27, 2024 | Doubt, Faith, Humility, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Formation
This was originally posted on March 21, 2017 on https://www.unhurriedliving.com/. [These thoughts come from a journal entry of about 10 years ago when I was experiencing a deep and dark night of faith] I have found insight and wisdom for my journey with Christ in the...
by Kara Martin | Feb 20, 2024 | Work
Note from TPW: Kara Martin addresses life in the secular workplace, sharing insights to help you lead your congregations to understand their faith and work and also to bring the Kingdom into your own workplace. This was originally posted on March 15, 2017 on...
by Scott Bullock | Feb 13, 2024 | Ash Wednesday, Lent, Love
A Valentine’s Day Tradition What better way to say, “I love you,” than passing your beloved some sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, and glycerin wrapped in a chalkly Necco wafer heart? Maybe some of you remember your fifth grade crush surreptitiously sneaking a bag of...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Feb 6, 2024 | Lent, Memory
The Necessity of Memory Memory—or, more actively, remembering—plays an all-important role in our lives. Our culture likes us to focus on the now, “looking forward rather than looking back”—to be people of action, focused on doing—rather than contemplating...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 31, 2024 | TPW News
Update: May 24, 2024 We are less than a week from launch! The new site is set to open to subscribers on May 29, 2024. The TPW team is working hard to make sure everything is ready to go at launch so that you are able to take advantage of the new features right from...
by Alan Noble | Jan 30, 2024 | Book Excerpts, Depression, Love
Adapted from Ch 4 of On Getting out of Bed. Why is Existence Good? Living for the sake of living—doing things so that you can continue to efficiently do things—begs the question, Why live? To live. That isn’t a sufficient answer. Now or sometime in the future that...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 23, 2024 | Book Reviews
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. –George Bernard Shaw Problems with Visions of Success One of the main narratives in American culture is...
by Scott Bullock | Jan 16, 2024 | Book Reviews, Epiphany, The Church Year
The Strain of Time Time marches forward for all of us, doesn’t it? There are 365 days in the Gregorian calendar. There are 365 days in the Liturgical calendar. While the respective beginnings and endings of these calendars differ, there is a tug-o-war that ensues...
by Stuart Strachan Jr. | Jan 9, 2024 | Conflict
Called to Pastor, Inclined to Argue When I was graduating from college in the mid-2000s, I was encouraged to take a career test to determine where my personality type would fit in the working world. My #1 option shouldn’t have surprised me (but absolutely did). A...
by Holly Catterton Allen | Jan 2, 2024 | Intergenerational Ministry
Intergenerational ministry is an idea whose time has come. Leaders from all types of Christian communities—community churches, mainline churches, charismatic churches, Catholic churches, evangelical churches, missional churches—are asking the same question: “How can...
