During a recent children’s time in church, one of our priests gave each child a slip of four star foil stickers – the ones that typically accompany a good grade on a worksheet from school – colored red, silver, gold, green, and blue.
Saint Luke and Laying On Hands
Several years ago the church I currently serve decided to end their Wednesday healing service, opting instead to add healing prayers to the Sunday morning […]
Building Bridges in Times of Tension
“But we already went to church today!” my son said plaintively. “That’s right,” I replied, but “it was my church; now we’re going to mommy’s […]
Parenting Children to Grow Outside Our Comfort Zones
From the outside, our youngest daughter looks like a typical developing toddler. If you passed her in the store, you would probably think that she […]
A Church Community That Really Got It Right
“I don’t think you are doing this whole Christianity thing right.” That’s what my husband said when I started my church search shortly after moving […]
Getting Four Girls Out the Door and Into Church
It’s tough to miss my family at church. Obscurity is not our thing. Our group of six easily takes up an entire pew. Four blond […]
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
Some of my first memories of our tiny country church are in the first pew, sitting right next to my great-grandmother. After raising my grandmother […]
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.