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Thank You, Good-Bye

November 5, 2021 By Elizabeth Bentrup 3 Comments

As part of their visit to Episcopal High School, the Buddhist monks taught the art of constructing sand mandalas through demonstration. Days of demonstration.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, Family, Holy Spirit

The Blessed Confusion of Pentecost

May 23, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

To arrive at Pentecost, we should go through the Tower of Babel. The arrival of the Holy Spirit rhymes with that story on purpose—so let’s take a moment and follow a story we might not have thought about in years.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: diversity, Feast Days, Holy Spirit, Pentecost

Red

June 14, 2019 By Anne Warner 1 Comment

It’s been less than a year since our family’s returned to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, so there are still surprises in the liturgical calendar. “Please wear red on Pentecost,” invited Father Randall. I owned nothing red except for a waffle-knit funnel-neck shirt that obviously screamed fall even though the weather was basically expected to be just that.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: hike, Holy Spirit, nature, Pentecost

Trusting That Our Lives Have Meaning

January 24, 2019 By Melissa Wilcox 3 Comments

Bedtime is always a time of revelation and sometimes self-revelation in our household, particularly with our youngest child who is eight-years-old. We have noticed since Thanksgiving that he has been easily frustrated, trying out unsavory words on his older brother, and bursting into tears quite regularly.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: anglican communion, bedtime, Florence Li Tim-Oi, Holy Spirit, meaning of life, saints, violence

Following the Way of Love with Youth

September 26, 2018 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

Are you practice The Way of Love? Read about Bishop Curry’s call to us to follow the seven principles of The Way of Love: Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bess, Go, and Rest and see how one youth group begins their journey on The Way.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: church, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, rule of life, spiritual practice, teenagers, teens, Way of Love, youth, youth group

Another post about racism with a dose of hope

September 12, 2018 By Miriam McKenney 3 Comments

How do you begin to dismantle racism in our daily lives? Miriam writes about the challenge and the necessity of challenging and obliterating racism.

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: African-Americans, Becoming Beloved Community, Black Lives Matter, daughters, God, Holy Spirit, inclusion, Jesus, love, parenting, peace, racism, The Episcopal Church

Help children find their gifts this Pentecost season

June 16, 2017 By Heather Sleightholm 1 Comment

The call to go into the world in ministry in Christ’s name is for our children too. How can we help them grow into it?

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: discernment, Holy Spirit, ministry, parenting, Pentecost, young children

My morning prayers keep me focused on the Holy Spirit’s presence.

June 9, 2017 By Mary Lee Wile 7 Comments

For twenty years, my prayer practice reminded me that my children were sealed with the Holy Spirit and marked as Christ’s own forever.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: grandparenting, Holy Spirit, Pentecost, Prayer

Celebrating Pentecost

May 15, 2016 By Nurya Love Parish 2 Comments

We see many images on Pentecost: tongues of fire, winged doves. But what the Bible actually says is slightly different from what we see – and helps me in my parenting.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Holy Spirit, Pentecost

It’s (still) Easter: time to practice forgiveness.

May 4, 2016 By Nancy Hopkins-Greene 3 Comments

As a people who celebrate the risen Christ, we are called to forgive 365 days a year. Parenting gives us unique opportunities to practice this discipline.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: forgiveness, Holy Spirit, parenting

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