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When the Basics are Hard

April 3, 2019 By Sarah Kinney Gaventa 3 Comments

I’ve been attending yoga classes at my local studio for about a year. I’m into yoga for the stretching and centering, so when Zoe announced that the theme of the Wednesday class was going to be hard work, I immediately got nervous.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer Tagged With: bedtime, confession, Lent, parenting, Prayer, spiritual practice

We Interrupt Your Bedtime Routine for this Christian Formation Opportunity

March 21, 2019 By Drew Bunting 3 Comments

Last Sunday I had to bat cleanup after my own sermon. Sometime during the Nicene Creed, I realized that I’d left something out. It was an important point with significant pastoral implications.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bedtime, Christian formation, formation, parenting, questions

Trusting That Our Lives Have Meaning

January 24, 2019 By Melissa Wilcox 3 Comments

Bedtime is always a time of revelation and sometimes self-revelation in our household, particularly with our youngest child who is eight-years-old. We have noticed since Thanksgiving that he has been easily frustrated, trying out unsavory words on his older brother, and bursting into tears quite regularly.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: anglican communion, bedtime, Florence Li Tim-Oi, Holy Spirit, meaning of life, saints, violence

Deep Faith at a Distance

June 30, 2016 By Benjamin Gildas 3 Comments

Now that my daughter has moved away with her mother, my methods for sharing faith have to change. My intentionality about doing so remains.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bedtime, distance, divorce, saints

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