Richella Parham

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Articles & Essays by Richella Parham

Book Excerpt from A Spiritual Formation Primer

Fellowship with Other Believers

Published March, 2015 • Featured August 12, 2022

“Isn’t it wonderful that we can have fellowship across all dividing lines?” Richella Parham writes about the joy of learning from one another as we honor the strengths of different Christian traditions.

Essay

Holiness: More Than Avoiding Vice

Published February, 2020 • Featured February 18, 2020

Defining holiness by external measures leads to legalism. Richella Parham helps us move beyond avoiding vice and into building a life of virtue.

Essay

Christmas Presence

Published December, 2016 • Featured December 12, 2019

How to choose simplicity in the middle of the Christmas season whirlwind.

Book Excerpt from Mythical Me

Why is Comparison the Thief of Joy?

Published October, 2019 • Featured November 10, 2019

“By its very nature, comparison separates us from other people rather than connecting us to them.” Richella Parham uncovers the truth about this joy-stealing habit and points us toward freedom.

Essay

Advent: Learning to Wait

Published December, 2017 • Featured December 5, 2017

In a time of year that too often rushes headlong toward Christmas Day, Richella Parham reminds us about the courage we need to wait upon the Lord — a courage we live out in the Advent season as we both look back with joy to the first coming of Christ and ahead with longing to his coming return.

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Meditation on Life

Featured April 20, 2017

In a lovely Eastertide piece, Richella Parham shares a personal piece with us about the many ways the date April 21 has become a significant one in her life. Welcome to abundant life — ​“life lived from hidden sources that come into the soul from God and His kingdom.”

Essay

The Spiritual Discipline of Rest

Published August, 2016 • Featured August 18, 2016

Richella Parham gently bids us to listen not only to our bodies but to our souls, and give both the rest they so need.

Essay

The Renovaré Covenant: Legacy and Invitation

Published May, 2016 • Featured May 25, 2016

Richella Parham, Renovaré Board and Ministry Team member, shares a little bit about the history of the Renovaré Covenant with us.

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Punctuations of Praise

Featured March 31, 2016

In a piece for Eastertide or anytime, Richella Parham, offers a personal reflection on how the glad, ringing certainty of Easter can too easily fade back into a sense of ​“earth-boundedness” unless we make God’s priorities ours through the discipline of worship.