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Celebrating St. Barnabas, Apostle
Today the church honors St. Barnabas, Apostle. This image makes more evident how extraordinary he was - and how we ...
Put On Your Oxygen Mask First
How do you replenish your spirit when it gets low? Are you spending so much time on your children and ...
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 ...
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Hopes and Fears of All the Years
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of longing. This has made for awkward holiday gatherings with typical mid-forties ...
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
While some saints are obscure enough that we must pause to recall who they were and what they did, most ...
Honoring the ‘Saint’ in Saint Nicholas
I used to play Saint Nicholas and present his story at Christmas markets designed to inspire giving to non-profits helping ...
Jesus’ Invitation to Andrew and to Us This Advent
Searching the Gospel for stories of Andrew, we find him in sentences such as this one from Matthew 10: “Simon, ...
Welcoming Advent into Our Homes
Part of my family is already observing Advent. And it's not the clergy parents who are up to their eyeballs ...
Forming Faith in the Chronicles of Narnia
In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed. Clive ...