The Rich, Idolatrous Young Man
As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. “Good teacher,”
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Theology and the D Word in Church
When the D word came up in church, it came as a bit of a shock. And I am not
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Observing All Souls: Connecting Through Family Traditions
In our suburban neighborhood, full of families with young children, Halloween is a big deal. People celebrate the full month
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Do It Yourself: Crafty Strategies for Expanding Access to Godly Play
I have a reputation among friends and colleagues for being unusually crafty. If a new artistic practice catches my attention,
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Beatified Anyway
Dear Grow Christians Community, It’s with profound sadness that I write with the news of Elizabeth Felicetti’s death. A Grow
Praying Honestly & Irreverently
As a priest, my bookshelves are lined with prayer books. There are the obvious ones like The Book of Common
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Divine Encounters at the Altar Rail
Our church is blessed to have many young families and lots of small children. Little ones with loud voices, squirmy bodies,
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Allergies to Individualism
In the bookstore of the Ephrata Cloister in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, I found a slim volume called A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of
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Lessons from a Sabbatical
When I took a sabbatical from my congregation last fall, I planned to be away from home for half of the ten week time period.
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The New Look of Christendom
Now, I understand that it is now considered problematic to use the Hebrew Scriptures as Phillip did in this passage, as proof-texts of the divinity of Jesus, but that is not the problem I’m interested in here.
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