Let's return to prayer, to longing and expectation with our strength during Advent.

In this meditation, Josh offers a short meditation of praying with the soul. We attended to our bodies in the previous episode. We are bodies. We are also souls. This is the fifth of a six-part series of Advent meditations using the Invitation prayer guide, 40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God.

This prayer guide, first written in 2015 has been substantially re-written with new prayer practices and Biblical rationale.

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Let's return to prayer, to longing and expectation with our strength during Advent.

In this meditation, Josh offers a short meditation of praying with our strength, in and through our bodies. This is the fourth of a six-part series of Advent meditations using the Invitation prayer guide, 40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God.

This prayer guide, first written in 2015 has been substantially re-written with new prayer practices and Biblical rationale.

Download a digital copy of the prayer guide: theinvitationcenter.org/downloads

The Invitation is a spirituality center that creates time and space for God at the vital intersection of contemplation and justice.

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To learn about the Invitation School of Prayer:

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To learn about the School of Contemplative Listening:

theinvitationcenter.org/socl

Let's return to prayer, to longing and expectation in our MINDS during Advent.

In this meditation, Josh offers a short meditation of praying with the heart. This is the second of a six-part series of Advent meditations using the Invitation prayer guide, 40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God.

This prayer guide, first written in 2015 has been substantially re-written with new prayer practices and Biblical rationale.

Download a digital copy of the prayer guide: theinvitationcenter.org/downloads

The Invitation is a spirituality center that creates time and space for God at the vital intersection of contemplation and justice.

Subscribe to the Invitation podcast:

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To learn about the Invitation School of Prayer:

theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer

To learn about the School of Contemplative Listening:

theinvitationcenter.org/socl

Let's return to prayer, to longing and expectation in our hearts during Advent.

In this meditation, Josh offers a short meditation of praying with the heart. This is the second of a six-part series of Advent meditations using the Invitation prayer guide, 40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God.

This prayer guide, first written in 2015 has been substantially re-written with new prayer practices and Biblical rationale.

Download a digital copy of the prayer guide: theinvitationcenter.org/downloads

The Invitation is a spirituality center that creates time and space for God at the vital intersection of contemplation and justice.

Subscribe to the Invitation podcast:

theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe

To learn about the Invitation School of Prayer:

theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer

To learn about the School of Contemplative Listening:

theinvitationcenter.org/socl

In this episode, Josh offers the first of a six-part series of Advent meditations using the Invitation prayer guide, 40 Ways to Spend 5 Minutes with God. This prayer guide, first written in 2015 has been substantially re-written. You can download a digital copy of the guide at https://theinvitationcenter.org/downloads

The Invitation is a spirituality center that creates time and space for God at the vital intersection of contemplation and justice.

Subscribe to the Invitation podcast:

theinvitationcenter.org/subscribe

To learn about the Invitation School of Prayer:

https://theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer

To learn about the School of Contemplative Listening:

https://theinvitationcenter.org/socl

Josh and Greg explore Greg's discernment to divest his ordination, leave local church ministry to explore different creative approaches to healing racism. Previously Greg had described his mission in the three elements of the political, the contemplative, and the convivial. Here in part two Greg casts the vision of moving from repentance to reparations to reconciliation to repast.

Start at @17:00 to skip past the introduction directly to the conversation with Greg.

For more on Greg visit: www.vuproject.org

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In this episode Josh opens up a conversation with Greg Thompson about his book co-authored with Duke Kwon, Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance & Repair. Yet in the process of attempting to create a conversation about healing the ravages of white supremacy, Josh is confronted with his own personal instability. Does he belong to himself enough to be able to steward for others conversations about healing toward reconciliation? How is it that sharing our weaknesses with each other allows us to belong to each other?

This episode is an introduction to Greg, his movement out of pastoral leadership into Voices Underground, an organization committed to erecting a national monument to the Underground Railroad. Greg describes how his mission that lies at the intersection of the political, contemplative, and convivial led him to go to culinary school open a restaurant and a cocktail bar.

In part II of this conversation, Josh and Greg go more deeply into the meaning and practice of reparations.

Start at @15:00 to skip past the introduction directly to the conversation with Greg.

Please visit: https://www.vuproject.org

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Josh has a conversation with his best friend about their 30+ years of spiritual friendship since they met at summer camp in middle school. This episode is a co-release with the Awakening, a worship/arts camp for high school students based at Hope College.

Promo vid: https://youtu.be/6-aewn-cgIo

For more information about the Awakening: https://hope.edu/awakening/

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We are recruiting for the School of Prayer beginning in September '23, https://theinvitationcenter.org/school-of-prayer and the School of Contemplative Listening beginning in August '23, https://theinvitationcenter.org/socl

Part II of the third conversation between Cami Beercroft Mann and Josh Banner for the series, the Forum on Spiritual Direction. We continue to tease out the meaning of the thesis of this series that spiritual direction can solve (almost) all of our problems.

Part I of the third conversation between Cami Beercroft Mann and Josh Banner for the series, the Forum on Spiritual Direction. We continue to tease out the meaning of the thesis of this series that spiritual direction can solve (almost) all of our problems.

There are a few spots open for those wanting to spend time engaging the Forum on Spiritual Direction in a retreat format at St Gregory's Abbey in Three Rivers Michigan. Please email Josh with your interest.

The Invitation is a spirituality center that practices spiritual direction at the vital intersection of contemplation and justice.

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