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We Choose Honor

November 10, 2019 By Elizabeth Bentrup Leave a Comment

What do you need to adopt about your home and about yourself as a parent or spouse to have the kind of home you want? 

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: discipline, parenting, tough choices

Lenten Swim Class

April 8, 2019 By Kit Lonergan 8 Comments

I don’t like doing things badly. I don’t like doing things badly in front of other people. I really don’t like doing things badly with a bathing suit on in front of other people. This was the set of parameters I had to work with for my Annual Discernment of Kit’s Lenten Practice this year.

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Filed Under: Lent, Parenting Tagged With: discipline, imperfection, Lent, tantrum, water

I tried to wield Lent over my family’s heads. It doesn’t work.

February 27, 2018 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

My attempts to modify others’ behavior during the six weeks before Easter haven’t really been any more effective than my mother’s were.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: children, Children in church, discipleship, discipline, forgiveness, Lent, parenting

This Lent, I’m practicing breath prayer with my teens. You can too.

February 13, 2018 By Tina Clark 2 Comments

I encourage my boys to pray, but I’m not sure I’ve done a good job of showing them how. That’s something I will change this Lent.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipline, Family, Jesus, Lent, Prayer, teenagers, teens, tweens

Parenting refines the soul. That’s not pleasant.

July 30, 2017 By Ryan Casey Waller Leave a Comment

Your screaming toddler just might save your soul.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, death, discipline, parenting, resurrection, young children

Lent is about persistence, not perfection.

March 2, 2017 By Rachel Jones 4 Comments

There will be days when we don’t run well—when we fall down or throw up or cry or can’t finish. And that is ok. We have not ruined Lent.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: discipleship, discipline, Jesus, Lent, running

Lent with Young Ones: An Adventure

February 23, 2017 By Jerusalem Jackson Greer 1 Comment

Are your kids too young to “get” Lent? Here are some fun ways to turn the season into an adventure.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: discipline, fasting, Lent, spiritual discipline, young children

No Battle Hymns for this Christian Mother

October 10, 2016 By Melissa Wilcox 2 Comments

As Christians, we approach child-raising differently.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: discipline, parenting, virtue

How do we order our days? St. Benedict shows a way.

July 13, 2016 By Nancy Hopkins-Greene 5 Comments

The Rule of St. Benedict provided – and still provides – a basic guide for living the Christian life.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: discipline, rule of life, St. Benedict

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