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Seminary is Forming My Children Just as Much as Me
The first time my children worshipped without me in the pew next to them, something remarkable happened ...
Second Secret of a Pew Whisperer: Respect
At the end of the day, respect is not just a social virtue — it’s a theological virtue too. Sharing ...
Preparing to Celebrate St. Barnabas, Apostle
St. Barnabas shows us how to create a space of acceptance and encouragement where our children can discover ways to ...
Cultivating a Heart of Gratitude
The practice of gratitude - rooted in Scripture, lived out daily - is worth cultivating at home ...
Learning to trust God and let go
I've learned over the years that letting go is one of the primary and most challenging practices of parenting. That's ...
Honoring the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Today, as we celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we honor all the embraces throughout history between women ...
The Gift of Time to Grow
If you’ve ever watched a little seedling nose its way up through the earth like a tiny miracle, then you ...
My adult child reflects on her faith
I provided my adult daughter with a faith foundation. Now, she's telling me it made a difference ...
Preparing to Celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Episcopal Church celebrates the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on May 31. How might you prepare to celebrate ...
As a parent, I am my child’s guide
As parents and caregivers, our children are our guests as they learn to find their way through life ...
Nothing separates us – or our son with special needs – from the love of God.
Parenting a child with special needs is living with the beloved child you have and not the one you had ...
A House of Prayer for All People (Even Young, Wiggly Ones)
I want to be in a place that embraces all people, including young, wiggly, wandering ones, as a blessing, not ...
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The Resonance of Pauli Murray’s Sainthood
Sometimes I struggle with the witness of the saints. While the Church identifies a saint as “a holy person, a ...
Loving and Forgiving with Peter and Paul
Although Saint Peter is remembered within our Church calendar on January 18 by his confession of Christ, and the conversion ...
Dog (Man) Days of Summer
More than five years into life with our spring-loaded third child, who wakes up (and often wakes us up) at ...
John the Baptist and the Holiness Movement
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. His narrative begins with the Angel Gabriel making ...
The perspective of a true teacher as modeled by Adelaide Teague Case
In the back of my cupboard sits a chipped coffee mug, a gift from my supervising teacher at the end ...
The Trinity Calls us Deeper into Relationship
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God” (John 1:1). And ...