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Shouldering Our Way through Good Friday

April 7, 2023 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: gardening, Good Friday, gun violence, Holy Week, Jesus

The humble intimacy of Maundy Thursday

April 6, 2023 By Mary Lee Wile Leave a Comment

Looking back at the Grow Christians pandemic posts for Maundy Thursday about the creative ways families shared this night’s ritual, part of me wonders if our church services can ever approach the intimacy of the footwashing done by family members for one another.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: deacon, foot washing, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday

Please don’t follow me for more simple kid hair hacks

April 1, 2023 By Kit Lonergan 2 Comments

Our daughter came into the world with a large head, a conspicuous tuft of bright red hair, and a deep stubborn streak which clearly has no relation to her biological parentage.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: discipline, Lent, parenting

Cultivating Holy Space

March 28, 2023 By Stephanie Moncrieff Leave a Comment

Space. It felt as if I never had enough.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting, Prayer Tagged With: Contemplation, Lent, Prayer, young children

The Lenten Journey at Saint Michael’s

March 16, 2023 By Susan Caldwell Leave a Comment

The season of Lent is a gently shifting lens at Saint Michael’s.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: Children in church, formation, Forward Movement, Godly Play, Lent, Lent Madness, teenagers, young children, youth ministry

Prioritizing Lent

March 7, 2023 By Christian Simmers Leave a Comment

As our daughters grow, we have engaged in many conversations around our family values.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, Godly Play, Lent, parenting, teenagers

Truth-Telling on Ash Wednesday

February 22, 2023 By Leyla King Leave a Comment

Recently, a parishioner described to me her experience of a funeral at another church. “They kept talking about the person’s ‘transition,’” she said. “It took me a while to figure out that they were using that word as a euphemism for death.”

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, children, death, honesty

Finding grace in flowers and snow and everywhere in between

February 21, 2023 By Ann Benton Fraser Leave a Comment

Margaret of Cortona is remembered for her spirit of repentance and supplication.

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Filed Under: Lent, Saints, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, grace, reconciliation, saints

Preparing for a Holy Lent with Children

February 17, 2023 By Allison Sandlin Liles Leave a Comment

Lent begins in less than a week. For the first time in three years, it actually feels like the beginning of a new season rather than a continuation of a pandemic-induced eternal Lent.

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: faith at home, Forward Movement, Lent, love, SALT, United Thank Offering, Vibrant Church Communications

It’s Holy Saturday, and we wait.

April 16, 2022 By Katherine Doyle Leave a Comment

I often hear, and have said myself, you can’t get to Easter Sunday without Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. But what about Holy Saturday?

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: faith at home, Holy Saturday, Holy Week, parenting

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