Spiritual Themes>Healing and Forgiveness|Quest Article
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One of the most important lesson we learn—and try to teach our kids—is that when something goes wrong or breaks, we need to take a deep breath and figure out how to fix it.
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You can keep up with the many online events that the CLF offers through our website calendar.
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There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable.
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Adorning almost every Protestant church is a cross—inside, outside, over the altar, in the vestibule, in the minister’s office, and sometimes many stories high on top of the building.
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What must it have been like for folks living through World War I, 1914–1918? The horror of that war is still something I struggle to understand.
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In the January 2015 “Transformation” edition of Quest, I had a sermon titled “Transformation vs. Acceptance.” In that sermon I gave passing mention to Jane Rzepka for the concepts I was writing about.
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The Days of Awe—the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur—are considered the High Holy Days in the Jewish tradition—significant moments that even secular Jews may celebrate in some fashion. It’s the New Year, after all.
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I believe that our human survival depends on waking up to our connection with the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.
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Corrie ten Boom was living with her older sister and her father in Amsterdam when Holland was occupied by the Nazis.
Read MoreHall of Records
In the Administrative Department of my heart, which is down the hall from Feelings, Major, I wrote down the time you offended me.
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