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Preaching the Word, Teaching Inclusion

March 23, 2023 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

Last week, as priests and pastors and children’s ministers and people of all stripes working in churches attempted to make sense of the miraculous healing at the heart of the lectionary, some extremely important questions came up.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bible, disability, healing, lectionary, Wiggles & Wonder

The Prodigal Son & The Disney Princess

March 27, 2022 By Bird Treacy Leave a Comment

When we read Bible stories, we always want to cast ourselves as favorably as possible. Sure, we might not be the Forgiving Father – that’s clearly Jesus casting himself in his story, right? – but we could at least be the forgiven son. Except we usually aren’t.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Disney, Godly Play, lectionary, parable, Wiggles & Wonder

Celebrating Saint Philip and Saint James

May 1, 2019 By Eric Liles Leave a Comment

Today is the feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, apostles with ambiguous storylines and confusingly common names. 

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Don’t take a vacation from God! Faith Formation is year-round and lifelong.

May 28, 2018 By Bill Campbell 3 Comments

Every year, the church-going faithful come into Pentecost with their post-Easter glow and then, well…honestly, everyone seems to disappear. The “summer slump.” as my formation […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Bible Study, children, lectionary, summer, vacation bible school, youth

My children are hearing the Bible in worship, camp and Sunday School. It all counts!

August 21, 2017 By Carrie Willard Leave a Comment

All of the snippets of scripture that we hear in worship and sing in hymns “count” in my children’s Christian education.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Bible, Book of Common Prayer, children, Children in church, Evening Prayer, faith at home, faith formation, hymns, lectionary, Music, parenting

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