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Reflection from Bill Boyd, Director of Spiritual Formation

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In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

In this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

In this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

Kicking off this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued reading and study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflection on columnist David Brooks' 'Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person' with continued study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reading of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.' "All doctrine concerns either one of two things: either things or signs. Things are learned by signs."

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reading of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.' "Everything which does not decrease on being given away is not properly owned when it is owned and not given, for Jesus says, 'He that has, to him shall be given...' (Matthew 13:12)."

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, music by Claire Holley, American folk singer-songwriter from Mississippi - 'O Love That Will Not Let Me Go' from the album 'Every Hour' (2019).

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued study in the book of Matthew through the commentary by Frederick Dale Bruner.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued reflection on the book of Matthew and rules of life.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflection on what to do with the Golden Rule, and what comes after it in the Sermon on the Mount.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a look inside our staff interview with investor Kevin Compton and UNC students Ben Cooke and Addie Morgan about success, how to treat others, and Matthew 7.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, some words for all the seniors, the Class of 2020.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, the last day of final exams at UNC, a reflection on the intricacy of creation, family, and our only comfort in life and death as described in the Heidelberg Catechism.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, an excerpt from 'The Read-Aloud Handbook' by Jim Trelease (1979) paired with Psalm 4.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 72 with a look inside our live Zoom reading and prayer at 8:30am EST, and our concert and conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and American theologian Ellen Davis later at 8:00pm EST. (More info at ncstudycenter.org/events)

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, 1 Corinthians 13, "if I do not have love."

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 2, a 'testament to the hubris of man.'

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 114 with Micah 6:8.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, further reflection through 'The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection' (1969) by Robert Farrar Capon on the relationship between creation and grace.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 133.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 through a reading from 'The Supper of the Lamb' by Robert Farrar Capon.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 in light of a conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and theologian Ellen Davis - continued.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 in light of a conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and theologian Ellen Davis.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflections on the living Jesus through continued study of Luke 24 as inspired by Rev. David Dunderdale (Blacknall, Durham).

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Easter Monday, Luke 24:1-8 inspired by local church sermon from Rev. David Dunderdale (Blacknall, Durham) on Easter Sunday.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, English poet WIlliam Blake's 'The Lamb' from 1789 set to music in 1982 by John Tavener, late English composer. Music performed in Saints Peter and Paul Church, Clifton.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on the power of song, Proverbs 20:5 and 25:11, and American singer-songwriters John Prine and Nanci Griffith.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection for this Holy Week through a brief reading from 'One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder' by Brian Doyle.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, 1 Corinthians 1:25-31 with selected quotes from Francis de Sales, 16th-century Genevan bishop

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a study of Philippians 1:27-2:18.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a study of Revelation 1:1-9 through the lens of Psalm 89:46-52.

Daily meditation on scripture, a reading of Revelation 1:1-19, with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture, Revelation 1:1-3, with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.

Christian thought leader, professor, and award-winning author Dr. James KA Smith spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill on the topic of ambition, drawing from his newly released and much celebrated book, On the Road with Saint Augustine. As our guide, Smith will show how “Augustine’s timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life,” particularly our worries and struggles over whether our ambitions are vain or virtuous. Learn more about the North Carolina Study Center at ncstudycenter.org.