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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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Sharing Our Voices…Together
Contributing to Grow Christians for the last six(ish) years has been an honor. I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to ...
Planting Grow Christians
In the early 2010’s, I was a young mother of young children. Back then, blogging was fresh and new, and ...
The Growing Faith of Future Generations
Reading back through my Grow Christians contributions over the past eight years, I was struck by how much my writing ...
Making Space for Holy, Ordinary Moments
One of the things that keeps me on social media is my town’s “free stuff” group. You can get everything ...
A Little Bit of Water
Sometimes, we just need a little bit of water. On one such occasion, my family of four, along with Rufus ...
An Almanac of Grace
A friend recently shared how much she has enjoyed listening to MasterClass podcasts, specifically deep dives in medieval literature and ...