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Announcement: What’s Next for Grow Christians

Dear Grow Christians community, After ten years of ministry, Grow Christians will conclude its active publishing in September and become ...
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Relics, Empire, and Faith

“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” is a colloquial saying that originated in a mid-19th-century poem by ...
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Holy Interruptions

Why is Mother’s Day so HARD? Let’s begin here: I love my Mom and all the wonderful women who have ...
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Love Came Down: Teaching Children a Spacious Faith with Christina Rossetti

The collect prayer written for the Feast of Christina Rossetti quotes a line from her poem that would become the ...
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Prayers for Protection from Monsters

Children go through various stages of development when it comes to sleep and fear of the dark. My youngest child ...
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Five Hallmarks of Intergenerational Worship: Free Workshop April 30th

When I began working on Roots & Wings, a grant through Virginia Theological Seminary focused on the Episcopal expression of ...
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How It Ends: Sister Emily Cooper, Graduations, and Graves

About two years ago, my wife and I mounted a six foot long white board on our office wall. We ...
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Holy Humor Sunday

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. —Proverbs 17:22 (NIV) A few years ...
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A Holy Week at the Table: Cooking, Prayer, and Rediscovery

Last year, I began a tradition of preparing symbolic meals for each night of Holy Week as a way to ...
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Remembering the Children: An Easter Reflection

Lent is one of those seasons that quietly invites us to slow down.  And then, Easter is the season that ...
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Staying in the weighty matters of death on Good Friday

On Palm Sunday, during the reading of the passion gospel, my three and a half year old learned that Jesus ...
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Washing Feet

The Lord Jesus, after he had supped with his disciples and had washed their feet, said to them, “Do you ...
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Announcement: What’s Next for Grow Christians

Dear Grow Christians community, After ten years of ministry, Grow Christians will conclude its active publishing in September and become ...
/

Relics, Empire, and Faith

“The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” is a colloquial saying that originated in a mid-19th-century poem by ...
/

Holy Interruptions

Why is Mother’s Day so HARD? Let’s begin here: I love my Mom and all the wonderful women who have ...
/

Love Came Down: Teaching Children a Spacious Faith with Christina Rossetti

The collect prayer written for the Feast of Christina Rossetti quotes a line from her poem that would become the ...
/

Prayers for Protection from Monsters

Children go through various stages of development when it comes to sleep and fear of the dark. My youngest child ...
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Five Hallmarks of Intergenerational Worship: Free Workshop April 30th

When I began working on Roots & Wings, a grant through Virginia Theological Seminary focused on the Episcopal expression of ...
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