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Hello, Gorgeous

March 9, 2021 By Anne Warner 8 Comments

Circle up you gorgeous pandemic caregivers. Look at your tired hands and feet. You are alive today. You’ve kept others alive this past year.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: caretaking, children, church, coronavirus, exhaustion, parenting

Conversations, Spoken and Unspoken

August 13, 2020 By Matthew Cadden Hyde  1 Comment

I recently had a conversation with someone about their autistic son. It wasn’t a comfortable chat, being marked with regret and sadness and questions about faith. I

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: autism, Children in church, church, conversations, parenting, special needs

Our Sunday Morning Diaspora

May 29, 2020 By Kit Lonergan 5 Comments

I had it fully mapped out in my head what an excellent Sunday morning we were going to have, which was the first sign that it was definitely going to go in another direction.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Children in church, church, coronavirus, parenting

Saint Dunstan and The Crown

May 19, 2020 By Fr. Patrick Funston Leave a Comment

The best scene of the best episode of Netflix’s “The Crown” is Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in “Smoke and Mirrors” (the fifth episode of the first season).

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Filed Under: Saints, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: church, Prayer, saints

Does this bag make me look holy?

March 14, 2020 By Meredith Baker 6 Comments

We need to talk about getting out the door to church on Sunday morning.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: church, parenting, Prayer

Cornelius the Centurion and Families Who Don’t Fit In

February 7, 2020 By Miguel Escobar 2 Comments

I will always remember the first time I met my husband’s brother.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, church, Cornelius, Family, inclusion, Jesus, St. Peter

Breaking Down Barriers at Church

December 13, 2019 By Desi Allevato Leave a Comment

Families can participate in the life of the church through different, and sometimes unexpected, ways.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: altar, altar guild, Children in church, church, ministry

Let your children fly

October 2, 2019 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Letting go of your children is tough. Miriam shares what happened when she let her daughter make her own way.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: adult child, adult children, church, Music, singing

Learning through Faith @ Home

September 3, 2019 By Allison Sandlin Liles 1 Comment

A few months ago Victoria Hoppes invited me to join the Faith @ Home community by writing short reflections on lectionary texts to help adults teach the stories to young children.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Liturgical Year, Parenting, Way of Love Tagged With: Bible, Christian formation, church, Faith @ Home, Forma, parenting

Is Church Pleasurable?

February 22, 2019 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

The venerable hymn “All My Hope on God Is Founded” in our Hymnal 1982 offers more than one gem in its verses, but I love looking around every time we sing the above line in a church. “Pleasure leads us where we go.”

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: church, evangelism, hymns, joy

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