Sanders Archives - Contents and Containers

Wind January 22, 2020June 9, 2021

Why the biggest problem of 2020 is our inability to dialogue

The Sin of Certainty I just finished Pete Enns’ quick read from 2017 Sin of Certainty. Here’s my review on Good Reads, and also this […] Read More

Essays, Wind March 17, 2016June 9, 2021

How being disrupted can change our families, our cells, and our interior lives

This blog post was originally published at circleofhope.net. Bowenian pyschotherapists have a concept called homeostasis. In my elementary understanding, homeostasis refers to a “normal” state of […] Read More

Essays October 8, 2015June 9, 2021

Is faith merely a cultural fixture?

I was telling the pastors in the car the other day that the concept of cultural pluralism was something that the dominators have come up […] Read More

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.

Earth: Planting seeds of faith and helping them sprout.

Wind: Taking first steps of life in the Spirit.

Fire: Accepting the gifts we bring to a community and our purpose, and learning to give them.

Water: Deepening experience of transformation.