Conversations Journal existed to bring about honest dialogue on the ways our lives are shaped by God. One of the aims of the publication was to examine themes of Christian spiritual formation through various lenses of the faith (denominations/traditions/streams of Christianity). This month we’ll be studying the topic of “Healing,” with a rerelease of the Fall 2012 issue on that subject. This issue will have a permanent home here at Conversatio, with a companion course that allows readers to take the topic a bit deeper and journey into your own experience of the theme. The editors invited voices from a variety of Christian traditions to share about healing: body and soul, emotional and relational, miraculous and seemingly ordinary.

Throughout the pages of this issue, you’ll read stories about healing from those who experienced it, skeptics who witnessed it, and others whose faith was strengthened in the waiting.

This issue was special, a celebration of the tenth anniversary of Conversations, and for the first time, we had an interview with the artist whose work appeared on the cover. That artist is Makoto Fujimura, one of the most highly-regarded artists of the twenty-first century. He is the founder of the International Arts Movement and has served on the National Council for the Arts. He shared, “All true art leads to healing. Art (even done by non-believers) resides in the province of Eden.”

As you savor the pages of this issue, reflecting on areas in your life that need healing, may God meet you with his grace right where you are. The companion course for this issue is for the article, Heal Our Inner Sight, O God: The Journey from Spiritual Blindness to Spiritual Sight, by Ruth Haley Barton. Visit the Classroom to access the article and summary written by Joannah Sadler.

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