Come take a sacred journey. Meg Crane has never had a longing for adventure. She's never even traveled more than two hundred miles from home. But when she receives an invitation from the New Hope Retreat Center to travel deeper into the heart of ...
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable MentionThe women from Sensible Shoes are taking their next steps in the spiritual formation journey. But each of them is finding roadblocks along the way.Meg, a widow and recent empty-nester, is off to see her daughte...
Christianity Today Book of the Year AwardThe women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equilibrium in the midst of all that has changed?Mara: While faced with the turmoil of divorce and chaos at home, sh...
"I was desperate. . . . I couldn't turn off the dark thoughts, no matter how hard I tried or how much I prayed. And then I spent a whole weekend in bed, and the crying wouldn't stop, and I got really scared. I've had bouts with depression before -- i...
"'It is finished,' Jesus says. It's a bold declaration for us to make too. What does it mean to say 'It is finished' when so much is unfinished? It means we are people who live hope in two directions, both backward and forward. We long for the kingdo...
"We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen." (2 Corinthians 4:18) In a season of loss and change, Wren Crawford and her great-aunt, Katherine Rhodes, share the journey as companions in sorrow and hope. As Katherine prepares to retire...
Sometimes, you see, Wren and Gran didn't paint flowers or clouds or birds or trees.Sometimes they painted their feelings.She and Gran called it painting prayers.Gran's art studio is one of Wren's favorite places in the world. Not only is it where Wre...