Gallery How to Be a Fashion-Loving Minimalist If you read an article about how to live without an income every day for the rest of your life, you might be thinking, “Well … that isn’t going to happen.” But you’re wrong, because there is the possibility that we can achieve that on a daily basis. It’s not easy, but there are some […] Written by jack121400 October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Good Reads Sunrise and Sunset on Mars To explore the surface of Mars as a whole, scientists have focused almost exclusively on a portion of its surface, called the ‘Celestial latitudes’. It has a latitude of about 55 degrees north, and a longitude of about 2 degrees south. The surface is cold at this latitude, and at a very specific location, in […] Written by jack121400 August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Interceding for the Soul of America Editor’s Note: This essay is taken from Keeping the Faith: Reflections on Politics and Christianity in the Era of Trump and Beyond. Each week between now and Election Day 2020, we will be sharing new excerpts from this anthology of dissent. It’s an interesting position to write about American politics as a Kanaka Maoli who […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical What Does It Mean to Live “Without Wax”? And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. […] Written by Paul Tautges October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist How to dis-empower painful memories Everything we do and every word we say has an impact. That’s why Buddhism puts such emphasis on developing wise ways of being in the world, as taught in the Noble Eightfold Path. Something that was said or done long ago may still be causing pain—maybe all the time or maybe just when a parallel […] Written by Stephanie Noble October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian Feeling What Fills: The Ambience of Psalm 148 “What is wind?” A question like that from a child signals the emergence of something interesting and promising. A new sensitivity to the invisible has formed: seeing the wind’s effect on waving branches and drifting clouds, hearing the jangling chimes, and feeling the breeze across our faces. A curious new person, noticing all of this, […] Written by intervarsity October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Three Benefits of Paul’s “Thorn in the Flesh” What were God’s reasons for bringing a thorn of suffering into Paul’s life? The apostle reveals three benefits that he experienced. Suffering Prevents Conceit First, God gave the apostle his affliction in order to cultivate an increase in humility: “So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a […] Written by Paul Tautges October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Buddhist Speak the Truth but Beware Spiritually it is a good thing to speak the truth. So often we are afraid to speak the truth because of the negative impact it will have on us, the backlash we will feel from those who don’t want to hear or face the truth. But if it is an important truth, it must be […] Written by Ronald Hirsch October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian The Burning Bush The below excerpt is taken from Rev. Charles Howard’s forthcoming book The Bottom: A Theopoetic of the Streets, releasing next month. I have always been enchanted by lines that are gray sfumato blurred borders between the now and the not yet the real and the surreal the hyperreal the imagined. Some realities are self-constructed presenting […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
General Christian 1,000 Tongues, and the Job of Telling the Truth “I don’t think we can get free until we’re willing to tell the truth about our history. I do believe in truth and reconciliation, I just believe that truth and reconciliation are sequential. That you can’t have the reconciliation without the truth.” – Bryan Stevenson. During my twenties, when I lived in New Orleans, I […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Four Reasons Every Christian Should Vote I’m thankful my father and mother set an example of faithful citizenship. From my earliest days, I remember Mom and Dad going to the local town hall to vote. Back then I didn’t understand what voting was and why it was so important to them, but as a father and grandfather I do understand its […] Written by Paul Tautges October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Evangelical Our Weakness Is a Platform for God’s Grace It’s common for some Christians to say to others who suffer, “Rest assured, God will not give you more than you can handle.” But I often wonder what they really mean and whether it’s true. If what they mean is that God’s love toward us is so protective that he will never give us more […] Written by Paul Tautges October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Speak the Truth but Beware Spiritually it is a good thing to speak the truth. So often we are afraid to speak the truth because of the negative impact it will have on us, the backlash we will feel from those who don’t want to hear or face the truth. But if it is an important truth, it must be […] Written by Ronald Hirsch October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Burning Bush The below excerpt is taken from Rev. Charles Howard’s forthcoming book The Bottom: A Theopoetic of the Streets, releasing next month. I have always been enchanted by lines that are gray sfumato blurred borders between the now and the not yet the real and the surreal the hyperreal the imagined. Some realities are self-constructed presenting […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Speak the Truth but Beware Spiritually it is a good thing to speak the truth. So often we are afraid to speak the truth because of the negative impact it will have on us, the backlash we will feel from those who don’t want to hear or face the truth. But if it is an important truth, it must be […] Written by Ronald Hirsch October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
The Burning Bush The below excerpt is taken from Rev. Charles Howard’s forthcoming book The Bottom: A Theopoetic of the Streets, releasing next month. I have always been enchanted by lines that are gray sfumato blurred borders between the now and the not yet the real and the surreal the hyperreal the imagined. Some realities are self-constructed presenting […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
1,000 Tongues, and the Job of Telling the Truth “I don’t think we can get free until we’re willing to tell the truth about our history. I do believe in truth and reconciliation, I just believe that truth and reconciliation are sequential. That you can’t have the reconciliation without the truth.” – Bryan Stevenson. During my twenties, when I lived in New Orleans, I […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Interceding for the Soul of America Editor’s Note: This essay is taken from Keeping the Faith: Reflections on Politics and Christianity in the Era of Trump and Beyond. Each week between now and Election Day 2020, we will be sharing new excerpts from this anthology of dissent. It’s an interesting position to write about American politics as a Kanaka Maoli who […] Written by Red Letter Christians October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
What Does It Mean to Live “Without Wax”? And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. […] Written by Paul Tautges October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
How to dis-empower painful memories Everything we do and every word we say has an impact. That’s why Buddhism puts such emphasis on developing wise ways of being in the world, as taught in the Noble Eightfold Path. Something that was said or done long ago may still be causing pain—maybe all the time or maybe just when a parallel […] Written by Stephanie Noble October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
Feeling What Fills: The Ambience of Psalm 148 “What is wind?” A question like that from a child signals the emergence of something interesting and promising. A new sensitivity to the invisible has formed: seeing the wind’s effect on waving branches and drifting clouds, hearing the jangling chimes, and feeling the breeze across our faces. A curious new person, noticing all of this, […] Written by intervarsity October 22, 2020October 22, 2020 Saving Bookmark this article Bookmarked
