Category: The Godward Life

The Sanctified Imagination, Part 4

22 October, 2012 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

The sanctified imagination will serve us well along this pilgrim way because it will see correspondences—in nature and everywhere else. It will pay attention to a world—a universe—pregnant with metaphors, each of which is a

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The Sanctified Imagination, Part 3

17 October, 2012 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

Like harvesters, we walk the fields of this world and look for the marks of Jesus Christ, gleaning the savior1 wherever he may be found. When our imaginative vision is consumed with God, captivated by

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The Sanctified Imagination, Part 2

14 October, 2012 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

Imagine this: A river in the sky. I have five children, four girls and one boy. Guy time is a rare and valued treat. When my son was about three, we bought him two foam

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The Sanctified Imagination, Part 1

14 October, 2012 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

“We will sense you like a fragrance from a nearby garden and watch you move through our days like a shaft of sunlight in a sickroom.” -Rainer Maria Rilke Christ came to bring abundant life

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A Short Story for Easter

9 April, 2012 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

Once upon a time, not so very long ago actually, the snow was falling…and the towering pines bent under the load, brooding in the dark. She was tucked in, covers pulled up to her chin

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The Gospel and the Imagination

28 August, 2011 Ben Palpant 0 Comments 2 categories

There has been a growing refocus on the gospel and its transformative power of late within Christian evangelicalism, an emphasis for which I am grateful. Books are being churned out in an attempt to help

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