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The Importance of Christian Retreats for Children

May 15, 2023 By Noel Maldonado Leave a Comment

I can’t emphasize enough how important these retreats are for children.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: camp, retreat, teenagers

Love Your Enemy. Love Your Neighbor

May 12, 2023 By Susan Caldwell 1 Comment

It was 7:00 in the morning and someone was knocking at my door.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: love, Neighbors

That They All May Be One

April 13, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

A high school friend tells the story of the first time his father, an East Texas boy, visited his mother’s family in the Bronx.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipleship

Necks of Iron, Foreheads of Bronze

March 14, 2023 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

“I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.” —Isaiah 48:4

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: disagreement, neighbor, Old Testament

I’m just glad he’s not gay.

December 2, 2022 By Scott Robinson Leave a Comment

And all day I have listened to partisan commentators insist that their own hateful and inflammatory rhetoric against the LGBTQIA+ community cannot be blamed for this incident, because the shooter is “one of their own.” Hypocrites! Viper’s brood!

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: gun violence, hate, love

Relational Theology: The Cornerstone of Our Ethos

November 15, 2022 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Our love for God can only be manifested by our love for our neighbor.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: love, relationship, theology

The Godless Creation

September 27, 2022 By Scott Robinson 2 Comments

I used to quote this passage to my students at the evangelical university where I taught for ten years. They always nodded in sage agreement, murmuring appreciatively—until I told them the verse wasn’t from the Bible. It’s an Islamic hadith, one of a large collection of wisdom sayings that complement and amplify the Qur’an.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Saints Tagged With: creation, godchild, St. Francis

The Loose Tooth and Ordinary Time

September 6, 2022 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

I have been thinking about Jesus’ life on earth and trying to wrap my head around what his life might have been like.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: humanity, imagination, Jesus

Praying Compline with children during this summer of disruption, violence, and injustice

August 22, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse

It’s 9 pm on a Tuesday evening, and my 9 and 11 year old boys have just finished their second full day of Camp Mama.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: compline, parenting, summer, young children

How Intergenerational Ministry Looks at Saint Michael & All Angels

August 20, 2022 By Susan Caldwell 2 Comments

Early on in my church ministry, I received the book Sticky Faith from a parishioner

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Children in church, Fuller Youth Institute, intergenerational, youth ministry

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