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Everything We Need: A Holy Week Round Up
Okay. Take a deep breath. Holy Week is almost upon us and yet, no matter the planning that goes into ...
Goodness, Gossip, Gasps, and Gold
“Jacqueline! Your gas tank light is on empty!” Bernardino gasped in astonishment. “I wasn’t thinking about it,” she replied. Together, ...
Does this bag make me look holy?
We need to talk about getting out the door to church on Sunday morning. Maybe you're one of those unicorns ...
What Makes a Saint Great?
I can almost guarantee that if you ask any child (possibly well into teenage years) what they want to be ...
God’s Vending Machine is Always Stocked
Recently, I stopped at a CVS to grab a drink before driving out to Paris, Texas, to see my mom ...
The Blessings within an Inconvenient Lent
I am not on social media all that often, because when I do, my feed seems to turn into a ...
When Sabbath Comes for You
“Guilt free laziness. A welcome respite.” These words came through on a group text when the icy weather hit North ...
Discovering God in the Ordinary Moments With My Young Child
So much of the early development of faith occurs before children can even articulate what is happening within them. For ...
What’s in a Name?
A few weeks ago at church, we arrived to find name tags waiting at the greeter's table. This might sound ...
There will be flowers
Water seeds, make breakfast, no tv, no phone, push through the morning routine. Do you have your track shoes? Lunchboxes? ...
Chaplain Teddy’s Guiding Light: Helping Children Make Sense of Goodbye
There are moments in life when words feel too small, especially when children are facing loss, illness, or the mystery ...
Beauty in the Ashes
Today is Ash Wednesday, marking the start of our Lenten journey. For the next several weeks, we will follow the call ...
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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 ...