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James Bryan Smith


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James Bryan Smith (M.Div., Yale University Divinity School, D.Min., Fuller Seminary) is a theology professor at Friends University in Wichita, KS and a writer and speaker in the area of Christian spiritual formation. He also serves as the director of the Aprentis Institute for Christian Spiritual Formation at Friends University.

A founding member of Richard J. Foster's spiritual renewal ministry, Renovaré Smith is an ordained United Methodist Church minister and has served in various capacities in local churches. Smith is also the author of A Spiritual Formation Workbook, Devotional Classics (with Richard Foster), Embracing the Love of God, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven and Room of Marvels.
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The Good and Beautiful God:...

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The Good and Beautiful Life...

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Room of Marvels

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Embracing the Love of God: ...

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The Good and Beautiful You:...

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Hidden in Christ: Living as...

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“The most important aspects of our lives cannot be rushed. We cannot love, think, eat, laugh, or pray in a hurry...When we are in a hurry--which comes from overextension--we find ourselves unable to live with awareness and kindness.”
James Bryan Smith, The Good and Beautiful God: Falling in Love with the God Jesus Knows

“Christianity doesn't answer all my questions or make me comfortable and happy. What it does do is give me a context for living.”
James Bryan Smith, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

“It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.”
James Bryan Smith, Rich Mullins: An Arrow Pointing to Heaven

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