From copy editor Elise Brandon: Writing about how we should live is often a reminder I don’t live that way. After writing my piece on how habits stem from our own motivations, good or bad, I caught myself thinking about exercise: I need to get to the gym this week. But then I realized I was trying to change a habit without dealing with my heart—the opposite of what I argue for in today’s essay on habit formation.
This year, I am starting my New Year’s resolutions with a time of reflection and prayer. Which resolutions does God want me to focus on this year? Why is exercise important? Why now? At some point in the next few days, my husband and I plan to go to a coffee shop to share our goals and ideas, prodding each other to reflect more deeply and open up our real selves to God.
Whatever I resolve to change this year, I want to know my own reasons first.
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As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature "An American Deportation" as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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