As we enter the holiest week of the Christian liturgical year, prayers, poems, and devotionals can help us connect more deeply …
Intergenerational Prayer Stations for Pentecost
Pentecost provides a lot of wonderful images to center interactive prayer stations around: birthday, fire, breath, and wind – just …
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Respectful Practices For Approaching Multicultural Resources
In The Episcopal Church, we are slowly acknowledging the cultural diversity that makes up our community. Resolutions from 2018 …
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Celebrating Ascension at the Airport
"The Ascension is essentially the flip side of Christmas. In December, we celebrate how the divine enters our ordinary human …
The Way of the Cross: New Ideas for Lenten Prayer and Devotion
In 2021, Virginia Theological Seminary produced a 40-minute video, The Way of the Cross (El Vía Crucis), that was made available …
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Baptismal Promises Stations
For our Confirmation Retreat, I created a series of activities around the baptismal promises that invited movement, reflection, …
Create Your Own Justice Drive: Helping Families Learn, Share, and Pray about God’s Work in the World
Research shows that millennial parents (born 1981-1996) and Gen Z parents (born 1997 onward) have a strong connection to social …
Prayers for Native American Day (Indigenous People’s Day) & Native American Heritage Month
For many people in Native American communities, the federal holiday Columbus Day serves as a painful reminder of the brutal …
Building Connections between Feelings and Faith
These days when I talk to fellow families, I hear the same echoes in our voices. We’re weary. We need …
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Blessing Animals at the Zoo
Caring for creation is holy. From the beginning, we’ve been entrusted with caring for our world and all things wooly, scaley, and …