Karen Stiller
Karen Stiller is a writer and editor of Faith Today magazine, a publication of The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Her spiritual memoir, The Minister’s Wife: a memoir of faith, doubt, friendship, loneliness, forgiveness and more comes out in May 2020.
Bio last updated March 10th, 2020.
Articles by Karen Stiller
Writing Faith Into The Public Square
By Karen Stiller
October 23, 2019
Convivium contributor Karen Stiller finds inspiration in writers who have shown courage writing their faith into the public square, providing opportunities for writing about what is important to the faithful.
The public writing of faith also gives us an opportunity – if we take it – to share what the Bible says about important topics that influence our lives, our communities and the vulnerable people we encounter They do an important and brave public work, and as a nice consequence, they make room in the chilly public square for the man or woman in the collar who really seems to freak some people out these days Four times now, circling the block with my dog, I have listened to a podcast of Frederick Buechner (important note and mystery solved: it’s pronounced Beekner, according to his very own website) speaking at the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College (there is a bi-annual festival for all of us who love to read and sometimes write!) I first discovered Lamott through Travelling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith, her spiritual memoir that details her coming to Christ, who pursued her relentlessly and gently at the same time, as he’s been known to do
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Toward the End of Longing
Karen Stiller
March 13, 2019
Karen Stiller pines for consumer baubles to keep up with everyone on Instagram. Then she reminds herself the true answer to such want is giving whole-heartedly to God.
We will long for less of that, and more of God alone, and this is such a relief I looked it up, by the way, and it sounds much more sophisticated how Blaise Pascal wrote it in Pensées in 1662, as an “infinite abyss,” that “can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by G...
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Becoming Counterculturally Quiet
Karen Stiller
October 9, 2018
In Vancouver writer Ken Shigematsu’s new book, Karen Stiller finds kindly guidance on how to walk the path from drivenness to grace (without stopping incessantly to check her phone).
Then I hit them over the head, as devotional leaders should do, by telling them what pastor Ken Shigematsu does first thing every morning, according to the Vancouver-based author’s latest book, Survival Guide for the Soul: How to Flourish Spiritually in a World that Pressures Us to Achieve Shigemats...
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Slowing Down for Lent
Karen Stiller
February 14, 2018
Writer Karen Stiller finds in a sign near her house a spiritual admonition to slow down and pay attention to God.
The word Lent is painted on Neepawa Road because in French, of course, it means slow – which it took me a couple of walks to realize My heart does turn toward God when I pay this kind of slow attention, when I lent like this ...