We scrolled through the images on the child sponsorship website. Boys and girls with dark hair, shirts buttoned all the way to the top, serious […]
Parenting as a Perfectionist
Where is the line drawn between wanting your children to grow into their best selves and accepting them for who they already are? This question […]
I Spy a Giveaway!
A couple of weeks ago I laid down with my nine-year-old son to read Lindsay Hardin Freeman’s book The Spy on Noah’s Ark. I flipped […]
Friendship Bracelets and Forming Faith with Youth
My left wrist currently sports a grand assortment of colorful friendship bracelets; a sure sign that I spent the summer with the people and doing […]
Sandwiched
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one that was actually there, And that has made all the difference. A […]
Signing Our Way Through Vacation Bible School
Editor’s Note: This is the second post in Meredith Baker’s series on Whole Body Worship. In case you missed her first post on liturgical movements, […]
The Lesser Feast of the Myrrh Bearers: Joanna, Mary, and Salome
When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. […]
The Power of Youth at General Convention
My name is Claire Parish and I was one of two youth selected from my province to be part of the General Convention Official Youth […]
Letting the Little Children Gather at General Convention
Editor’s Note: This post has been adapted from Mary Lee’s original post for The New Northeast, a online community for the Episcopal Diocese of Maine. […]
A Church Community That Really Got It Right
“I don’t think you are doing this whole Christianity thing right.” That’s what my husband said when I started my church search shortly after moving […]