Building Faith
My generation (at least in my experience) is in a place where the desire to know the stories of our families is intensified. I have found myself in a place where I want …
Continue Reading about Reflection: Storytelling as Essential to Christian Communities
Discussion among adults can be a pooling of ignorance or a highly satisfying swapping of insights. When scripture is involved, it makes sense to do all we can to create a …
Continue Reading about Digging Deeper: Starting a Small Group Bible Study
When it comes to stewardship (whether it be of time, talent, or treasure) every generation approaches giving in different ways. Each generation has its own …
In our excessively active world, a world that assaults us daily with e-mail, faxes, junk mail, bills, memos, phone calls and television talk shows, we might think the …
Continue Reading about A Model for Mother’s Day: Julian of Norwich
Remember bringing your baby home from the hospital? I do. We placed our son, in his pumpkin seat, on the dining room table and stared at him. We wondered, "What should we …
As we approached Palm Sunday, a dear priest friend in New Zealand concluded her email to me with the sentence, “May we survive the Resurrection.” That sentence has been …
Origins of Hot Cross Buns It is one of the peculiarities of the observance of the great fast of Lent that several of the customs surrounding it have to do with …
"And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing and joyful be, and through eternity, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on!" Holy Week and Easter With Holy Week and …
Continue Reading about Age-Appropriate Music for Holy Week and Easter
I was really concerned about my milkman. Warren delivers a gallon of skim, a quart of 2% and a quart of chocolate milk to our house every Thursday morning. Sometimes he leaves a …
In the past two weeks, two new books with very similar titles came across my desk and tugged at my creative soul. Curating Worship by Jonny Baker from Seabury Books has a …
