Three Celtic instincts — stillness, awe, and welcome — are turning up in contemporary research on attention, generosity, and human flourishing (Footnotes by John Ortberg).
Carey Nieuwhof has spent two years inside the question of what AI does to the church. His answer is disarmingly simple: as the world becomes more synthetic, the church has to become more human.
Why Christian maturity is a communal reality, not a private achievement.
These three opportunities for communal training in Christlikeness are available to disciples of Jesus who are serious about their spiritual formation.
A new wave of research is mapping how practices, relationships, and shared life reliably shape Christlike character — and why formation is always communal (Footnotes by John Ortberg).
Paralyzed at seventeen and a quadriplegic for nearly sixty years, Joni Eareckson Tada talks with John Ortberg about despair, anger at God, and pain. What emerges is a hard-won hope: that Jesus is "the treasure, not the consolation prize," a word for anyone whose circumstances may never be okay.
Why the transformation of the soul matters more than the miles (Footnotes by John Ortberg)
These three ministries encourage and facilitate pilgrimages of body and of soul (Footnotes by John Ortberg).
A generation exhausted by screens, speed, and endless self-optimization is trading comfort for meaning — and finding the road still has power to reshape a soul (Footnote by John Ortberg).
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