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Looking East: The Wisdom of Foolishness
As we pursue the deep work of engaging the beauty and the harm in our own stories, we learn that, on the outside, courage might...
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It’s a Battle
The work of pursuing healing in our lives and relationships confronts us with the ways in which our understanding of intimacy and desire have been...
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Things Must End
Wading through our stories, in all of their glory and heartache, inevitably confronts us with the reality of endings. “Every ending bears some level of...
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How Great Thou Art
Last week on the Allender Center Podcast, we launched a two-part series in which Dan and Becky Allender are reflecting on the nature of grief...
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Dying to Live: A Reflection on Rising
Next week we will observe Holy Week and step once again into the movement from death to resurrection, from the death of Good Friday and...
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Mothering
Growing a loving, secure attachment between parents and their children is a weighty, complex calling in any circumstances. When families include biological children alongside stepchildren...
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The Wrong Jeans
Our styles of relating are formed and informed by the messages we internalize through our stories of harm and abuse. Here, Laura Wade Shirley, Participant...
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The Work of My Life: A Story Workshop Experience
The Allender Center’s core belief is that we are best known—and our stories best seen—in the company of others. One of our signature expressions of...
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