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L'Abri Fellowship - Southborough — 100 episodes

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To Set Out & Come Home: Two Deep Human Longings

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Friendship with God

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Habitation of Wonder: Tenanting Beauty, Imagining Justice

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The Lesson of the Fig Tree (Jesus' Favorite Tree?)

5

Is There a Christian Challenge to the Culture War?

6

Is Escape through Literature a Good Thing?

7

The Day of Small Things: Moments, Manners and Matters of Building a Life

8

What Do You Do with the Envy You Feel?

9

Creativity's Aid or Undoing? The Use of Generative AI in Art

10

Why is There Never Enough Time in the Day? Staying Human in an Accelerating World

11

Growing in Empathy through Reading Fiction

12

"For Every Wound that Arda Has Suffered": Wisdom and Lament in Tolkien's Middle-earth

13

The "S" Word: A Lexicon of Sin

14

Stones, Onions and Odes: Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human Part 3

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Fall 2025 Theme Weekend: The Dignity of Dependence

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Fall 2025 Theme Weekend: Being Human as an Act of Resistance

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Are We "Whittling Away" Character in Our Society?

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness, Part 2: The Gift of "What It's Like" to be You

19

"The Word of Your Soul's Health": William Tyndale and the Bible in English

20

Psalm 131: A Psalm for the Anxious and Exhausted

21

The Promise of Zion in Isaiah: God's Vision for the Nations

22

How to Be a Guest

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The Incarnation as Interruption

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Hall of Portraits Theme Weekend Final Discussion

25

There are Many Ways to Say I Love You: Jesus and Mr. Rogers on the Power of Gentleness

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"Pray for Those Who Persecute You": The Life of Civil Rights Worker Fannie Lou Hamer

27

"Often a Skylark Comes and Sings": The Spiritual Formation of Corrie ten Boom (Summer Theme Weekend)

28

Heroes, New and Used (Summer Theme Weekend)

29

Relatable Heroism: The Power of Literary Weaklings

30

A Beginner's Guide to "the Hard Problem of Consciousness" (part 1)

31

Go Slow & Repair Things: Reading Paul's Letter to the Ephesians in Dark Days

32

The Pool and the Cross: From Healthy Narcissism to Narcissistic Personality Disorder to "Ordinary" Self-Centered Jerkishness

33

Beyond Depressed and Anxious...Disconnected, Damaged and Doubtful: Clinical Cures and the Claims of Christ for the Crisis of Meaning in 2025

34

Stewarding Our Day-to-Day Mental Health

35

Nurturing a Capacious Heart: Why Everyone Should Read Kate DiCamillo

36

Listen to Your Lust: Engaging Your Story to Heal from Porn Use

37

Stones, Onions, and Odes Part 2: Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human

38

Coping with Anxiety: Mindfulness, Eastern Meditation & Biblical Wisdom

39

Winter TW 2025: Our Fractured Relationship with Time Concluding Discussion

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Winter TW 2025: Why is it so hard to wait well (and so easy to wait badly)?

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Winter TW 2025: Becoming Friends with Time

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What Is the Abraham Sacrificing Isaac Story Doing in the Bible?

43

Now Thank We All Our God: Singing the Hymns of the Thirty Years War

44

Make Sex Consequential Again: A Consideration of Sex-Realist Feminism

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Chaffinches & Cherubim: Bearing Witness to Glory

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What is Christian Nationalism?

47

Fall TW 2024: Did I Miss My Calling? The Circuitous Path of Vocational Clarity

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Fall TW 2024: Calling, Distraction, Hard Task, Sabbath: Wrestling with Vocation with the Help of Poets

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Fall TW 2024: Theological Reflections on Vocation: A Call to Participate with God in Restoration

50

Birds of the Kingdom 3: What the Birds are Saying--an introduction to the wonders of birdsong

51

The Way in the Wilderness: A Study of Jesus's Temptations

52

Remembering Together: Community, Memory, and Archives

53

To Get Where You Want Sometimes You Need to Stay Put: Acedia and the Christian Life

54

What is the Faith Jesus is Looking for?

55

Can Anything Good Come from Barbieland? What a Plastic Doll Can Teach Us about Becoming More Human

56

Two Human Longings, Lost and Found

57

Human-Sized: (Re)visiting Francis Schaeffer's "No Little People"

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Taylor Swift: Music, Mania & Monopoly

59

Stones, Onions, & Odes: Inspiration for the Hard Work of Being Human Part 1

60

Space, Place & Grace: Musings on the Meaning of Home

61

Liturgy as Life: Four Frameworks for Our Gathered Worship

62

Christ Rules in Ten Thousand Places: A Free Church Account of the Church as Catholic

63

Remaining Politically Homeless

64

Understanding C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters, Part 3: Heaven's Big Secret

65

Birds of the Kingdom, Part 2: The Brains and Brawn of Migration

66

The Book ofJob and the Wild Edge of Sorrow

67

The Book of Ezekiel: What is Going On?

68

Yes & Amen: Examining the Fabric of Faithfulness

69

The Proverbs 31 Woman: Favored or Forsaken?

70

No Professional Humans: Amateur Spirituality and the Way of Love

71

Trusting the Lord in Shattered Expectations: Reflections of a Missionary to Ukraine

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Understanding C.S. Lewis's Screwtape Letters Part 2: The Many Roads to Unreality

73

To Respect Onself as a Creature Part 2: Being in Process, Never "Arriving," and the Elusiveness of Closure

74

What Does It Mean to be a Man?

75

Ambiguity as Hospitality in Art

76

Tasting Goodness: The Integration between Subjectivity and Objectivity

77

The Baptized Imagination 5: Prophet, Poet, Seer, Sage

78

Birds of the Kingdom Part 1: Life on the Wing

79

Burned But Not Consumed: Thinking through Divine Action and Human Action

80

Understanding C.S. Lewis’s Screwtape Letters, Part 1: A Bureaucracy of Hunger and Fear

81

To Need is Human: Receiving, Yielding, Depending and Other Uncomfortable Postures

82

To Respect Oneself as a Creature: Finitude, Dependence, and Letting God Love Us

83

An Imagination for the Good: Can Art make Righteousness Plausible?

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The Baptized Imagination 4: Take Heed How You See

85

From Tripods to Selfie Sticks: A Personal Journey through Photography

86

The Apostle Paul and the Problem with Selflessness

87

Kindred Spirits: Reading for Friendship’s Sake?

88

”Can Beauty Save Us?” A Guided Listening Journey in Choral Music for Holy Week

89

Teach Us to Pray: Solitude and Silence

90

Challenges to the Modern University

91

Jesus: Our Model for Self-Control Part 1

92

The Baptized Imagination 3: Cultivating ”Something of Great Constancy”

93

The Bible and Spiritual Formation

94

What is the Significance of Jesus’ Ascension?

95

Teach Us to Pray: To Pray without Ceasing

96

An Etymology of Blessing

97

An Evening with Jo Swinney & Peter Harris, Discussing Jo’s New Book

98

What Do We Do with Our Tears? A Theology of Crying

99

The Playfully Skeptical Music of Josh Ritter

100

”To Be Bread Broken”: ’Loafing’ around with Jesus?