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I bring my kids to Ash Wednesday worship. Here’s why.

As a child, I was somewhat confused about death. I blame Star Wars ...
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Talking with kids about the hard stuff in Lent

My 5-year-old daughter most emphatically does NOT believe in “a season for everything.” ...
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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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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Saint Margaret: Christian, Queen, Wife, Mother

Today, we celebrate the Feast Day of Saint Margaret of Scotland. Her story reads like a fairytale-complex with political intrigue, ...
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Carrying the Light: Saint Martin of Tours and Veterans/Armistice Day

Today the Church remembers Saint Martin of Tours. His feast day dates much farther back in time than the observances ...
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