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In this personal essay, Dr Jeremy McClung leads the reader to a profound truth: God uses our in-between times to teach us how to get our sense of security from Him.

What does it mean to be child? Using the metaphor of clown and fool, Dr Scott Mealey encourages us to embrace transitions with humility and curiosity. With powerful words, Mealey invites us to consider our orientation to discipleship and the ongoing work of kingdom-building.

Global politics is in a time of profound and unsettling transition. Professor Justin Stratis preached this timely sermon in Founders’ Chapel on March 4, 2025.

The beauty of Dow's meditation lies in its reminder that being a Christ-follower means being rooted in community. The spiritual habits we are called to practice - worship, baptism, testimony, and joy - orient us to the Living Word, Jesus Christ, in the context of community - the gathering of believers.

With care, and a deep love for the Anglican Church, Professor Emeritus and historian Alan L. Hayes reflects on the Church's transition through the filters of continuity and change, and ultimately points readers to the anchor through all transitions, institutional or personal: Jesus Christ Himself.

Why is Black History Month needed? What does the invitation of this calendar month offer to all of us at large? Wycliffe College's Communications Associate Renee James reflects on the surprise and invitation of Black History Month.

When circumstances overwhelm you, how do you stay the course? Wycliffe Senior Student Kathleen Krynski reflects on the power of the Psalms to orient, ground and guide through the big and small transitions of life.

Rev. Dr Boram Lee shares how transition can be a sacred journey; an opportunity to deepen our relationship with God; each step in that transition a movement to a future as yet unseen, but one shaped by God who journeys with us. Transitions can be sacred places in which God our Father dwells.

Dr Marion Taylor writes about transitions through the lens of Naomi and Ruth. What do we do when our transitions take us from famine to plenty; from affliction to blessing, and back again? Dr Taylor offers us a nuanced account of suffering, provision, and the certainty of God's presence even in the darkest of seasons.

Professor Catherine Sider-Hamilton on the gift of the new road - that Christ Himself has made that new road His. "If I take the wings of the morning And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, Even there your hand shall lead me, And your right hand hold me fast. (Psalm 139: 9-10)"