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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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Feeling Benched
Our middle son plays quite a bit of baseball with a deep love for the sport. During the last tournament ...
A VBS Dropout and a Mother’s Faith
Recently, my 11-year-old son attended Vacation Bible School at our beloved home church. He’s attended in years past, and though ...
Celebrating Friendship with Aquila and Prisca
“After these things Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of ...
The Reformation Continues: Jan Hus’s Legacy Today
Every Sunday as a child, I would stand between my mother and grandmother in our pew as my Lutheran parish—the ...
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 ...