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Tonya Stanfield

Epiphany
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Tonya Stanfield

Celebrating Epiphany: This Ain’t Your Mother’s Nativity Scene

Perhaps no part of the Christian story has been “Disney-fied” more than the Twelve Days of Christmas, ending in Epiphany. (January 6th) Epiphany is a Christian feast day which commemorates the visit of the Magi to the Christ child.* As

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December 29, 2020 No Comments
Examen
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Tonya Stanfield

How We Pray Trains How We Live: The Examen

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series The Examen

“When prayer becomes an encounter with the living God, it becomes unpredictable.” – Robert Marsh No matter how my mildly autistic son might try, he can’t quite put himself into another person’s shoes. He’s very good at telling you how you

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November 17, 2020 No Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Life As Continuous Prayer: The Examen

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series The Examen

“Prayer is not so much an activity so much as it is a way of life.” Margaret Blackie The Examen is not meant to be merely a prayer practice; it’s a way of being in the world and with God.

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November 3, 2020 1 Comment
Clashes of ideology
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Tonya Stanfield

Clashes of Ideology and the Invitation to Love

This quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald always makes me think: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” How would you say your nation is currently passing

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September 8, 2020 1 Comment
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Tonya Stanfield

The Power of Proximity

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Listening As Worship

Banner Photo Credit: Ruth Smith Photography This article is the 2nd is a series and was postponed due to the Covid Pandemic tightening its global grip. However, in light of the world’s eye turning to matters of race and injustice,

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June 23, 2020 2 Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Uncertainty & Anchoring to God

From the beginning of time, chaos has not been feared by God, but is rather the element from which the Spirit created… and still does. As never before, we are in the midst of a pandemic of uncertainty, a shared

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March 26, 2020 2 Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Experiencing God through the ‘Other’

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Listening As Worship

Photo Credit: Lia Filles It was an accident… an unexpected stumbling into a modern-day New Testament church. Sort of. It was actually a converted warehouse in a dodgy Cape Town suburb. I was attending a workshop on Christian nonviolent activism

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March 10, 2020 No Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Spiritual Crisis: Find Out Why It’s Good News!

This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Stages of Faith

Burn-out. Crossroads. Identity crisis. Break down. Wilderness season. Mid-life crisis. Back-sliding. We’ve all got different names for spiritual crisis. Some have less bite (and possibly less honesty) than others. Spiritual crisis is hard, but it can be good news! The

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March 26, 2019 No Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Moving from Self-deception to Self-awareness

This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Stages of Faith

If you were to step into a fish tank, who would be the last to know he was in water? The fish? Or you? The answer: The fish. Because the fish has lived the entirety of its life submerged, it

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March 19, 2019 No Comments
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Tonya Stanfield

Experiencing Your Real, Messy Life as Discipleship

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Stages of Faith

When my brother was three, he wanted to be a boa constrictor. As an adult, he settled on becoming a doctor. At my son’s kindergarten graduation, the kids announced their future, grown-up careers: “Marine biologist.” “Architect.” Three kids in a

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March 12, 2019 No Comments
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