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“Daybreak”— A Poem
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Kristina Robb-Dover
This is a poem I wrote this morning. May your day be full of hope: Daybreak When the sound is birds, and the harvest of night is gathering into morning’s first blooms, the silent prayer of the universe for every living, beating thing stretches itself out across the plain of my heart in hope. Maybe…
God of the Gaps: Survey Finds Americans Pray More in Disasters
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Kristina Robb-Dover
It’s another week of hermitic writing, I’m afraid, so you’ll be hearing less from me as I push through edits from a second revision. But this morning I stumbled upon a report from Religion Today which I found interesting in light of my church small group’s conversation yesterday around prayer and learning to trust God…
Talking Albatrosses and Freckled Monsters: The Power of Imagination
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Kristina Robb-Dover
The other day as I sent my hubby and kids off to an escape at the beach far away from my manic dash to the finish line on the manuscript for Grace Sticks, I was struck once again by the power of the human imagination. During that ungodly, 6 a.m. drive to the airport, we…
“How Prayer is Transforming Nations”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Are you doing a program for the Lord or welcoming the presence of the Lord? That was the question put before an audience by a guest speaker at World Vision years ago, at a time when our family was living in Southern California and Dad was by then in charge of at least a couple such “programs”…
Centering Prayer and “Melodrama”
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Kristina Robb-Dover
The other day I stopped by a centering prayer group for the first time in a very long while. I wasn’t sure how I would find it, but I knew that centering is something I long for in the midst of life’s many distractions and my ingenious capacity to respond to them. I had wandered…
Evangelicals, God Talk and Hearing Voices
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Stanford anthropologist TM Luhrmann, whose latest book is When God Talks Back, has been studying evangelicals and their approach to prayer. Luhrmann recently described in an article for The Daily Beast how that field work experience in at least one sense signified a conversion: Luhrmann did not walk a way having become an evangelical- or a Christian,…
Visio Divina: Meditation 2 (Ephesians 3)
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Visio Divina (The Visual Word): An Advent Series
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Kristina Robb-Dover
Starting tomorrow we’re in for a treat. That’s when we’ll begin a special Advent series featuring the photography of the very talented, fellow saint and sinner Katie Archibald-Woodward. (Just think: we’ll get to say that we knew Katie before she became famous; and I’ll be able to boast that I grew up miles from her…
Thankful Lists: How To Go Cold Turkey With Complaining
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Kristina Robb-Dover
This Thanksgiving, I’m reminded again of Helen at the assisted living center who regularly tells me she hates her life and wants to die. From a pragmatic standpoint, it doesn’t really help that Helen doesn’t believe in a God who loves her- a God, in short, to Whom one might give thanks. Recently, though,…
What Does It Mean To Pray Boldly?
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Kristina Robb-Dover
“And this is the boldness we have in [Christ], that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have obtained the requests made of him.” – 1 John 6:14,15 This week the precocious ladies in Clairmont…
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