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Faith in the Fire: Why a Spiritual Foundation Matters in Life’s Hardest Moments with Pastor Ray Longwood brain science for emotional healing christianity divorce and faith leadership spiritual self Aug 13, 2025

In this deeply personal and heart-centered episode, Karen McMahon sits down with her longtime friend and pastor, Ray Longward, Lead Pastor at Experience Vineyard Church, for an open and vulnerable conversation about faith, healing, and leadership in life’s hardest seasons. For the first time publ...

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New Hope in the New Year During Divorce divorce and faith Dec 22, 2017

How do you find hope in the new year during divorce? While living in turbulence and uncertainty throughout divorce, life feels hard at best and often impossible to manage. Struggles with your finances, stbx, kids and perhaps even your faith feel like a vice closing in on you…with no place to turn.

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Divorce and Faith divorce and faith forgiveness Oct 25, 2017

How do you reconcile the differences between divorce and faith?

While navigating the Holy Land with Rabbis, Ministers and Imams the conversation turned to divorce and faith. The four who spoke (both men and women), recalled their reasons for divorce and the day they decided to take the first steps ...

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