Stay Awake!
Advent celebrates the journey inward, a yearly pilgrimage into darkness and waiting, away from bright lights and busyness, far from words and work to be done. One year, after the edge of a hurricane scoured the East coast, we took our sleeping bags down to a dock and watched the Leonid meteor shower on a […]
How We Discover Hope – Oct. 9, 2020
“Hope cannot be wrestled to the ground, taken in by the power of our persuasion. In miniscule moments, brief encounters, little kindnesses given or withheld, we discover whether or not we have the capacity for Christ’s coming, whether or not we will have the courage to reach past old disappointments and welcome the new. I […]
CoS Books – Five for $30
Friends, thank you for your continued reading! We are so grateful for our community and for being in fellowship with you through the digital Inward/Outward ministry Kayla began more than 10 years ago. We have shared quotes from Elizabeth O’Connor, Gordon, and Kayla this week and now you can keep their words in your home […]
The Dishes – June 12, 2020
“My friend has a plaque hanging up in her kitchen “Everyone wants a revolution; Nobody wants to do the dishes.” Is there anything more true? I think my church, and my kids, and myself, I think we want to be radicals. I think we want to change. But we don’t want to do the work […]