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A Church Community That Really Got It Right
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Getting Four Girls Out the Door and Into Church
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The Atypical Church
My heart broke again. It started in the car. “Mama, no one will include me at recess. I keep asking to play, but everyone already has […]
Help me up, this is my song
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Our Movie Making Journey Through Lent
I have the good fortune of working with a bright, gifted group of kids who are being raised by loving parents devoted to their Christian […]
As a recovering perfectionist, I know: there’s no perfect way to “do” Holy Week.
This Holy Week, God will be at work in us in ways we cannot yet ask or imagine.
I’m thinking about toy guns with wisdom from the book of Numbers.
I want to be enough of a roadblock to convince them to think a little more deeply.
Our Holy Week family traditions vary from year to year.
Hope is the word I’m clinging to during this Lent.
I tried to wield Lent over my family’s heads. It doesn’t work.
My attempts to modify others’ behavior during the six weeks before Easter haven’t really been any more effective than my mother’s were.