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Gospel Movement in Dubai Among Filipinos

There’s something special about hearing God’s Word in your native language. A shared language allows people to understand God’s Word better, grow in their faith, and spread the gospel.

My Spouse Died Prematurely — Was It My Fault?

So what I want to say is that, if the Bible has an answer for how you would press on in life with freedom and hope and usefulness, and even eventually joy, even if you had caused his death, then how much more can you be assured that God will help you press on in life with freedom and hope and usefulness, and eventually joy, when you did not cause the death and were helpless to stop it?

The Worship Initiative, Volume 29

The Inherent Dignity of Creative Work in Motherhood and Beyond

Even when creative work doesn’t yield a direct economic benefit, its power is undeniable. Few other human pursuits are so capable of making both creator and consumer more whole, healthy, and fulfilled. And in a throwaway culture that so often commoditizes people and their work, there is so much good to be gained from prioritizing a task whose only direct benefit is our own delight.

36 Truths for my 36th Year

I wonder how society would change if we looked beyond our own families and started seeing everyone in our world as beloved children. What tender care we could give each other. Just imagine.

Deconstructing Deconstruction

This is a subscription Substack I am trying out for a few months, written by an intelligent, humble, spunky Catholic woman named Claire Swinarski. This was the first piece of hers I read and it was great.

Deconstruction is not a fad, as some have painted it. People have been dismantling aspects of the faith they’d been taught since the beginning of time. But back in the day, this was seen as something to be stigmatized, ostracized, and shamed over in popular culture—not good. Today, it’s wildly rejoiced in popular culture—also not good.

The faithful life should be examined regularly. Confronting what you truly believe, and who you think Jesus was, is an essential spiritual practice. Going through the motions can lead to a detachment from the person of Jesus; it can lead to your spiritual life being a dry list of tasks instead of a relationship with Truth itself.

But here’s my question, for those in deconstruction mode: what are you constructing?

Jeanne Stevens – Go and Tell Gals

THE MINIMALIST MOM

Also… I REALLY want to make this strawberry crumble.