"The people we serve or love with holiness might not have any idea that some effort was required by us, and that is just fine. We don't have to go around telling everyone what hard work they are. Or sighing when we look at them. We should notice what we are thinking, though, and how we are feeling. We can let the light into our private rooms, and in that honest self-realization, draw nearer to God who has said clearly that nothing can separate us from the divine love. Forgiveness is always at hand for grouchy us."

God warmly welcomes us.

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Holiness Here offers practical and inspiring ways to help you see the holiness within your ordinary, everyday. beautiful life. Holiness is

  • a warm invitation to a new and better way to live
  • a deeper opportunity to know ourselves and others
  • a most basic urge—to live and love differently that we did before—because what we believe changes the way we act
Jeff Crosby

"Karen Stiller has dusted off an old, theological word that can be loaded with misconceptions at best and shame at worst, and has polished it into a beautiful diamond of an invitation to pursue a ragged and rough and incomplete holiness in the everyday."

Jeff Crosby

Author of The Language of the Soul

Holiness is here, and it is now. Holiness is lived out in our lives between us and God the true Holy One. Holiness is meant to be the warm love between one another. Holy is, and holy does. No matter who we have been and what we have done, or not yet done, it is surely never too late.

God warmly welcomes us.

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Holiness Here offers practical and inspiring ways to transform your life by helping you see the holiness within your ordinary, everyday life. Holiness is

  • a warm invitation to a new and better way to live
  • a calling for our lives in Scripture
  • a search that marks the life of a Christian (even when we don’t live fully into that reality)
  • a most basic urge—to live and love differently that we did before—because what we believe changes the way we act
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Karen Stiller is author of the recently released Holiness Here: Searching for God in the Ordinary Events of Everyday Life and The Minister's Wife: a memoir of faith, doubt, friendship, loneliness, forgiveness and more, and co-author of Craft, Cost & Call: How to Build a Life as a Christian Writer. Her work has appeared in Reader's Digest, The Walrus, Ekstatis, Christianity Today, and many other publications.

Karen is a teacher of writing, a writing coach and a freelance writer and editor. For 22 years, Karen served as an editor of the Canadian magazine Faith Today. She hosted the Faith Today Podcast, where she interviewed thinkers, leaders and writers like Kate Bowler, Philip Yancey, Ann Voskamp, Scott Erickson and many more tellers of important stories.

Karen's work has taken her to places like South Sudan, Uganda, Senegal, Cambodia and across North America, reporting on stories that are from the Church and of the Church. For several years, she moderated the Religion and Society Series at the University of Toronto, a debate between leading atheists and theologians.

Karen has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from the University of King's College journalism school, and is working on a doctorate in the Sacred Art of Writing at Western Seminary. She's been spoiled with some writing awards. 

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