Karen Stiller

Karen Stiller is a writer and editor of Faith Today magazine, a publication of The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada. Her spiritual memoir, The Minister’s Wife: a memoir of faith, doubt, friendship, loneliness, forgiveness and more comes out in May 2020.

Bio last updated March 10th, 2020.

Karen  Stiller

Articles by Karen Stiller

  • Toward the End of Longing

    Karen Stiller pines for consumer baubles to keep up with everyone on Instagram. Then she reminds herself the true answer to such want is giving whole-heartedly to God.

    We will long for less of that, and more of God alone, and this is such a relief I looked it up, by the way, and it sounds much more sophisticated how Blaise Pascal wrote it in Pensées in 1662, as an “infinite abyss,” that “can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by G...

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  • Becoming Counterculturally Quiet

    In Vancouver writer Ken Shigematsu’s new book, Karen Stiller finds kindly guidance on how to walk the path from drivenness to grace (without stopping incessantly to check her phone).

    Then I hit them over the head, as devotional leaders should do, by telling them what pastor Ken Shigematsu does first thing every morning, according to the Vancouver-based author’s latest book, Survival Guide for the Soul: How to Flourish Spiritually in a World that Pressures Us to Achieve Shigemats...

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  • Slowing Down for Lent

    Writer Karen Stiller finds in a sign near her house a spiritual admonition to slow down and pay attention to God.

    The word Lent is painted on Neepawa Road because in French, of course, it means slow – which it took me a couple of walks to realize My heart does turn toward God when I pay this kind of slow attention, when I lent like this ...

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