IOWA CITY — How do we cultivate the fruit of the Holy Spirit and intentionally live lives filled with love, joy, peace, ...

One of the first books I read as a new Christian almost 50 years ago was a book called “The Practice of The Presence of God,” a collection of letters and recorded conversations with a 17th-century ...

I had a hard time coming up with a theme for this column, but then, while fixing lunch, I got, “God’s Presence.” So let’s talk about this and see if ...

Bahá’í teachings explain that God is not a physical Being located in space, yet His existence is demonstrated through clear ...

For lack of attention, a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day. — Evelyn Underhill When was the last time you sat at a traffic light, impatient for the light to turn green? Or stood in line ...

In 1961, weeks after graduating from high school, James Finley rose one morning before dawn and left a note. In defiance of his father, who had refused to allow him to leave, he boarded a bus for the ...

In ministry we have three primary means of bringing the gospel into the lives of others. Faithfulness in ministry isnt just keeping the doors of the church open, hoping people will walk in. It means ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. Dear Pastor, Once we feel the tangible presence of God, why is it still so easy to walk away? A: Anything can be taken for granted, my friend, even the ...

attempt to respond to him in our actions; however, we approach him as one who will always be absent to us while we remain in something we now must call “our present state.” traces of God found in ...