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Building a foundation for generosity

March 19, 2023 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Why not give more?

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: generosity, Holy Family, parenting, St. Joseph

Thank You, Good-Bye

November 5, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup 3 Comments

As part of their visit to Episcopal High School, the Buddhist monks taught the art of constructing sand mandalas through demonstration. Days of demonstration.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, Family, Holy Spirit

Ordinary, unknown, but remembered

October 28, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Saint Simon and Saint. Jude *sound* familiar, but beyond associating the latter with St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, most of us can’t tell you much about either.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Feast Days, gratitude, St. Jude, St. Simon

It Is Most Blessed to Give AND Receive

May 28, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

We spend a LOT of time on output. We say a lot, post a lot, create a lot, do a lot, lecture our kids a lot (just me?), email a lot, text a lot, help a lot… but what is our input like? 

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: giving, Prayer, Sabbath, self-care

Prayer as Antihistamine

April 25, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

I read somewhere that Saint Mark the Evangelist is the patron saint of people dealing with insect bites.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: patron saints, Prayer, St. Mark

Faithful Voters

August 26, 2020 By Elizabeth Bentrup 1 Comment

We are inching ever-closer to the “first Tuesday after the first Monday in the month of November,” and whether you live in one of the five states that vote by post, plan to early vote, or are an enthusiastic wait-in-line, sticker-wearing, day-of participant, our most notorious opportunity for civic engagement is upon us. 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: baptismal covenant, children, parenting, politics

How we talk to our kids about race

July 17, 2020 By Elizabeth Bentrup 5 Comments

“As soon as you’re a parent, you have this fear that you’re going to f*ck it all up.” —Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert, episode 215 Boy, […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, conversations, parenting, race

Front Yard People

July 2, 2020 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

Our family has decided that we are #frontyardpeople. We are a family who deliberately spends time in our front yard and we welcome others to […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: baptismal covenant, community, hospitality, Neighbors, parenting

We Choose Honor

November 10, 2019 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

What do you need to adopt about your home and about yourself as a parent or spouse to have the kind of home you want? 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: discipline, parenting, tough choices

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