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Earth Posted onJanuary 19, 2022January 19, 2022

Don’t Look Up demonstrates the importance of faith amidst absurd politics

Warning: Don’t Look Up spoilers ahead. Don’t Look Up is a thinly-veiled comment on the current political moment, where alternative facts dominate the political discourse. It […] Read More

Water Posted onAugust 19, 2020June 9, 2021

Tilling the soil of our hearts and world for faith

Dying to our precious memories Those among us from “traditional” Christian backgrounds are dying to our precious memories of “church” in order to bring the […] Read More

Wind Posted onApril 7, 2020June 9, 2021

The loneliest Holy Week I’ve ever experienced

Holy Week is a big deal in Circle of Hope Last year during Palm Sunday we waved juniper branches to welcome in our Lord to […] Read More

Wind Posted onOctober 16, 2019June 9, 2021

Loving God breeds intimacy, not thinking

I offered a version of this post on our Men’s Retreat this year. MFW I talk more about food than eat it I’m not ready […] Read More

Earth Posted onOctober 9, 2019June 9, 2021

Cells aren’t a container for content, they are the content

Christianity isn’t just an idea One of the problems with the intellectualizing and principalization that Christianity underwent during the last thousands years in Europe is […] Read More

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What’s with the categories? They’re all loosely based on Circle of Hope’s idea of spiritual development, utilizing the elements to represent cyclical stages of our growth in Jesus. The posts land somewhere in one of those growth cycles, but are certainly for everyone to read. Following Jesus develops like all human development. At Circle of Hope we see ourselves moving from earth to wind to fire to water in an ongoing, organic process of receiving and enjoying our new, true selves in Jesus.

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