Grow Christians

Author name: Allison Sandlin Liles

The Rev. Allison Sandlin Liles is wife, mother, peacemaker and priest learning to navigate life in Dallas, Texas. After six years of working as Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Executive Director, she has now returned to parish ministry and presently serves as Priest in Charge of St Stephen's Episcopal Church in Hurst, TX.

Parenting, Saints, Spiritual Practices

Using Saints and Holy Days to Teach Faith at Home

The pandemic has highlighted what I’ve known for years: faith formation happens at home not exclusively during a 45-minute period on Sunday morning.

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Good Book Club, Spiritual Practices

What the Good Book Club is teaching us

The Good Book Club is wrapping up its fourth week today with the conclusion of chapter 10. Our household is participating once again this year, albeit more slowly. So rather than reading about blind Bartimaeus over dinner tonight, we’ll be back in chapter 8 discussing the costs of following Jesus. 

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Liturgical Year

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, friends. For our household, this morning feels like we’ve finally reached the finish line of the most grueling ultramarathon race in history. Today we are putting aside the hallmarks of our 2020: anxiety, despair, and decision fatigue, so we can make room for twelve full days of joy and Jesus. 

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Liturgical Year, Parenting, Saints

Growing Christians is Here (and so is a discount code)!

The day is finally here: October 27th. It’s the publication date for Growing Christians, the first book we created as the Grow Christians community. Last week I shared a sneak peek inside the book on the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, and today I’d like to share why we wrote it. 

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Celebrating Pentecost at Home

It’s been fifty days since Easter Day. Fifty days. Seven Weeks. An entire liturgical season spent physically distancing from our church families.

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