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Finding Grace to Practice More Healing, Less Helping

Unbalanced relationships threaten to harden us. Spiritual Reading creates the space and grace to soften our hearts even when we feel desperate and isolated.

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Spiritual Reading can help us heal

In a new book, RPW Host Jean P. Kelly tells how Spiritual Reading allowed her to recognize and avoid unhealthy relationships. She shows readers how to rewrite their own stories, receiving wisdom offered by the world’s greatest spiritual teachers.

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Honored and Blessed

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Forgiveness is not simple, even in the Lord’s Prayer

The simplistic definition of forgiveness as an end of resentment doesn’t work for Jesus, and it should not necessarily work for us either.

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Video: The Complexities of Saying Sorry in Faith

What we get wrong in Christian and Catholic teachings about forgiveness.

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Video Interview: Spiritual Reading in Hebrew tradition

Scholar Amy-Jill Levine discusses what Christ teaches about contemporary social justice issues, equivalents of grace in Jewish tradition and why Christians must refrain from anti-Semetic interpretations of Jesus’s life.

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Christ’s teachings challenge all of us

Video: Kitchen Conversation about Food & Faith

Derrick Weston offers for meditation a reading from his book, The Just Kitchen. He shares his approach to spiritual reading and cooking with intention. Filmed at the 2024 Wildgoose Festival.

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In the Kitchen, Hope & Love Abound

A guided spiritual reading prompting us to recognize cooking as a ritual that connects us intimately with God’s creation.

Additional music by Tyler Green.

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Video Interview: Saints are just like us.

Modern iconographer Gracie Morbitzer shows the humanity–and modernity–of holy men and women. They are just like us.

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Take Courage: Even in Uncertainty, the Path Appears

Thomas Merton suggests that being at peace with life’s confusion and contradictions is possible if we know and trust God’s presence.

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Be Still and Accept the Grace of God’s Help

In the “night prayer” psalm, we surrender all the days anxiety to “dwell in safety.”

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