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Every Last Thing is a Season

April 17, 2022 By Emily Rutledge 2 Comments

This Easter I am practicing resurrection. I am practicing hope. I am practicing knowing that no matter how bad it gets there is redemption, even after death.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Uncategorized Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter, resurrection, seasons

The Tomb is Empty and We’re Still Home

April 27, 2020 By Emily Rutledge 11 Comments

We started this whole quarantine, isolation, homeschool, work from home thing almost a month ago in the middle of Lent. The me who loves rhythms of liturgical seasons could spiritually get behind the idea that we would spend Lent sacrificing for others.

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Filed Under: Easter Tagged With: coronavirus, Easter, Lent, resurrection, theology

Feast of the Holy Sovereigns

November 28, 2019 By Emily Rutledge Leave a Comment

Sovereign (noun): a supreme ruler, especially a monarch

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, Hawaii, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, school

God’s Lesson on Boundaries

November 15, 2019 By Emily Rutledge 5 Comments

A few weeks ago I was diagnosed with shingles. The week before that I had strep throat. A few weeks before that my children started a new school year and the church program year began. A few weeks before that my mother died of dementia.I’m 35.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: parents, self-care, sickness

Summer of Angst

July 27, 2019 By Emily Rutledge 7 Comments

This summer my family is experiencing a whole lot of angst. Small scale going to kindergarten angst and large scale my mother is on her deathbed angst.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: adult child, death, dementia, parenting, water

The Unattainable Rubric

June 21, 2019 By Emily Rutledge Leave a Comment

As I sit here writing… I am inhabiting a body. As you sit there reading… you are, also, inhabiting a body.I am sure, just as I do, you have a long and complex history with your body. Most of my history surrounds my body’s interaction with gravity and how much space it takes up.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: bodies, gender, parenting, Psalms

The Sweetest Yes

March 14, 2019 By Emily Rutledge 4 Comments

We are entering one of my most dreaded times: college acceptance season.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: acceptance, college, teenagers, teens, young adults, youth ministry

No One Wants a Fairytale: Remembering the Rebel Martyrs with Teenagers

November 24, 2018 By Emily Rutledge 1 Comment

If you want a teenager to run away from church go ahead and teach them about the virgin saints. If you want teenagers to see the power they hold and the faith they can embody tell them about the the fearless arguers, the brave truth tellers, the rebel saints.

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Filed Under: Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Listening, martyrdom, teenagers, truth

Sandwiched

August 27, 2018 By Emily Rutledge 8 Comments

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one that was actually there, And that has made all the difference. A […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: adult children, caretaking, dementia, grandparenting

Short-Term Mission Trips: A Privilege of the Privileged

July 2, 2018 By Emily Rutledge 3 Comments

This summer, for the ninth year in a row, I will take a group of high school students on a mission trip.   I know […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: church, mission trip, teenagers, youth ministry

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