Sacrificial Adventure
“[B]ut we have assuredly formed a body of people to whom the Church is a challenge to sacrificial adventure, rather […]
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It Takes a Village
A few months ago, I had an interaction in the parking lot of my local Costco that stayed on my
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Suppporting Parents and Families Across Generations
When my boys were young, the wisdom of parents who’d already ‘been there, done that,’ was beyond valuable to me.
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Staying Put with Syncletica of Egypt
As is the pattern with many monastic women on our church calendar, she refused marriage despite her parents’ pleas.
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This One Word is Enough
“The sun must be sad today, Mama,” my younger son said to me.
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Front Yard People
Our family has decided that we are #frontyardpeople. We are a family who deliberately spends time in our front yard
Celebrating the Lesser Feast of Saint Martin with a Lantern Walk
The church celebrates St. Martin of Tours today, November 11th. Martin is best known for cutting his cloak in half with his sword to share with a beggar. Afterward, he had a vision of Christ, wrapped in the half cloak. It’s a pretty simple story, which is one of the reasons it works so well for young children. My children attend a Waldorf school, and celebrating St. Martin has been a beloved tradition for us since the oldest was in preschool.
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Miracles in Community: From Saint John’s Church to Joppa
There is a quilting group at my church that has been meeting every week for almost 60 years, working off of
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Shining light in dark places: when your teen mentions suicide
By sharing in our brokenness, we find healing. We find God.
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Discipleship
The Bible and quantum physics teach us: our actions affect future generations.
What we do now will affect those born a century from now.
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