Our final week in the series has us considering what fruits we have received from others or from God's good world?

We also reflect on what fruit is currently being born in us and what fruit we'd like to see in more abundance.

As we bring the series to a close, we consider larger principles about virtue development, including the unity of all virtue and the motivations behind our virtue.

On November 9 we gathered at a local pizza shop to consider a necessary and daunting question: what is the future of Christianity? To consider such a question requires that we first have some sense of where we have been and where we currently find ourselves.

This community conversation was the fourth we've offered and has been an important space for anyone longing to live a life of meaning and purpose.

We consider the final fruit in the list: self-control.

Is this fruit simply a pulling back and restricting - or is it something more?

Bethany invites us to see gentleness from a different angle -- a purposeful moving toward.

There's lots of good stuff in this episode to challenge and encourage us how we live today.

Teresa leads us through the fruit of faithfulness - a fruit that both grounds us (because God is faithful) and calls us to be steadfast with one another.

Our second week with these two virtues considers not just the definitions of goodness and kindness, but the nonsensical example we see in Jesus.

We take two words this week - kindness and goodness. These "sister" virtues begin not by giving them away, but by receiving them.

Chris invites us to consider the fruit of patience - a fruit many of us desire to have in greater abundance.

Patience carries with it the idea of integrity, making patience a fruit that helps us stay true to our values even in the midst of suffering.

Steve leads us in a reflection on peace -- a fruit that is more than a lack of conflict, but a force that brings wholeness.