Icon (Close Menu)

Marcia Hotchkiss

Marcia Hotchkiss is program director for the Abbey on Lovers Lane, Dallas.

A Minister’s Widow Turns Toward Jesus

Karen Stiller focuses on several words — fruit, body, money, hospitality, humility, beauty, church, remembering, and sorrow — to explain how holiness might become real in our lives.

Desperately Needing to Be Heard

Recently I attended a healing prayer conference in Dallas that featured one of the founders of Christian Healing Ministries, Judith MacNutt. Her late husband,...

Saying Goodbye to Nana

I am an Episcopalian, and Episcopalians often give up something for Lent or take something on as a daily discipline. This might include abstaining from...

Reflections Worth Taking Your Time

The author has a knack for clearly stating the human needs highlighted by each devotional entry.

Learning from Martin Luther King’s Mentor

Thurman’s belief that everyone is a holy child of God, spiritually and psychologically, anchors us in all areas of life.

The Searchlight of the Holy Spirit

One of the gifts of my spiritual direction training program a few years ago was exposure to the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola....

Listening with the Heart

I have always been a reader. Going to the public library weekly was an activity that I treasured as a child. When my faith became...

Forgiving Yourself

Last December my husband and I went to a party where we saw many old friends from a ministry we were involved in decades...

Forgiving Others

In the fall of 2019 a criminal court jury in my home city of Dallas, Texas, found an off-duty white police officer, Amber Guyger,...

Sharing the Gift of Stillness

How I learned to stop living life at breakneck speed and experience a personal and loving God who wanted me to be still so that I could know him.