Month: July 2025

  • July 29, 2025

A Cyclical Journey to Wholeness

An excerpt from Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation  For much of my life, my experience of the spiritual life has been full of guilt and shame for not doing enough and not being enough. I feel guilty whenever I fall asleep while praying in bed and each time I glance…
  • July 15, 2025

When There’s No Room for Your Gifts at Church

Recently, I took a spiritual gifts assessment at my church. I love these kinds of tools—the wonder of self-discovery, the language around calling, the idea that the Spirit equips us uniquely for the work of God in the world. So I dove in, curious and open. When I got the…
  • July 10, 2025

Short-Term Missions as Pilgrimage 

“For we are but travellers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode; we are on our way, not yet in our native land; we are in a state of longing, not yet of enjoyment. But let us continue on our way, and continue without sloth or respite, so…