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Truth-Telling on Ash Wednesday

February 22, 2023 By Leyla King Leave a Comment

Recently, a parishioner described to me her experience of a funeral at another church. “They kept talking about the person’s ‘transition,’” she said. “It took me a while to figure out that they were using that word as a euphemism for death.”

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, children, death, honesty

This Advent, This Love

December 19, 2022 By Laura Shaver 1 Comment

In keeping with a resounding theme, Advent, this year, has truly served as a time to reflect on love

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, death, love, parenting, parents

The Human Family: in death and life, divine and mortal

November 18, 2022 By Raymond Capo Leave a Comment

Upon occasion, we have the privilege and honor to sit with the dying, to accompany death as she visits and extinguishes the flame of life afore us.

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Filed Under: Prayer Tagged With: death, grief, resurrection

All Faithful Departed: Learning to Grieve

November 2, 2022 By Genevieve Razim Leave a Comment

“When you were a child, who taught you how to grieve?”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, grief

Not So Creepy: The Invitation of All Hallows’ Eve

October 31, 2022 By Bird Treacy 1 Comment

All Hallows’ Eve offers us an invitation unlike anything else in our culture.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, Bible, death, Halloween

Preparing our household for Allhallowtide

October 21, 2022 By Bonnie Smith Whitehouse 2 Comments

When suffering and grief inevitably find them, I want my children to be able to access the rituals of Allhallowtide

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, All Saints' Day, all souls, Commemoration of All Faithful Departed, death, parenting

Reflections and a Life Well Lived

June 27, 2022 By Sarah Carr Leave a Comment

For a friendship more separate than equal, we don our funeral black, and sign the guest book on the way in, all our children watching and following our lead with solemnity.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: death, friendship, Jesus Christ

New Directions for Holy Questions: Progressive Christian Theology for Families

January 17, 2022 By Claire Brown 1 Comment

I find myself searching for a theology resource I could feel comfortable with, not just in content but in approach.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: books, death, parenting, questions, young children

Each and All Saints

November 1, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

When we offer nighttime prayers at our house, we always include a section of ‘thank you, God’.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Prayer, Saints Tagged With: All Saints' Day, children, communion of saints, death, Feast Days, parenting, Prayer, saints

Gifts Found on the Bumpy Road

June 21, 2021 By Emily Gowdy Canady 1 Comment

Though we are not out of the woods yet, I’ve already begun looking in the rear-view mirror. In doing so, I’ve found some amazing gifts from this time. 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: cancer, children, death, godparents, Prayer

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