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When Art Becomes Prayer
This morning I was in line at the store and looked down to see a stack of coloring books for ...
This Lent, What’s In Your Ears?
When Lent comes around, we think about the foods we stuff in our mouths, walking our feet to the gym, and ...
Creating Sacred Spaces
As a child, my impression was that a clergyperson’s work was confined to celebrating Eucharist on Sunday mornings and spending ...
10 ways I practice faith while parenting teenagers
“When Jamie gets to that age, you’re going to help me, right?” “How can I get my kids to turn ...
Ash Wednesday
Today is Ash Wednesday - the official beginning to Lent. You might have noticed that even though Grow Christians is ...
I bring my kids to Ash Wednesday worship. Here’s why.
As a child, I was somewhat confused about death. I blame Star Wars ...
Talking with kids about the hard stuff in Lent
My 5-year-old daughter most emphatically does NOT believe in “a season for everything.” ...
Why Grow Christians?
Today, I’m a priest in the Episcopal Church and the mother of middle schoolers. But not long ago, I was ...
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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 ...
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 ...