Author name: Wendy Claire Barrie

Wendy Claire Barrie has directed programs for children, youth, and families since 1989 in seven Episcopal congregations large and small on both coasts, presently at Trinity Church Wall Street. Wendy is also the mother of an especially curious thirteen-year-old, and the author of the forthcoming book, Faith at Home: A Handbook for Cautiously Christian Parents.

Lent

Palm Sunday at Home

Wendy Claire Barrie / March 24, 2021

For the second year in a row, we’ll not be at church on Palm Sunday, and I won’t be in charge of the donkey.

Discipleship, Parenting

A short family guide to supporting racial justice now

Wendy Claire Barrie / June 18, 2020

As I write this, tens of thousands of people have gathered for a tenth straight day from New York City to San Francisco, in every state and at least 11 nations, to protest racism and police brutality.

Liturgical Year

Celebrating Christmas at Home

Wendy Claire Barrie / December 20, 2019

The 8 foot tree stands in the living room of our tiny, messy apartment and we step carefully around it to get into the bedrooms.

Parenting

The Bible is full of people making bad choices. That’s good news for us.

Wendy Claire Barrie / March 30, 2016

Once when I forgot to bring a chapter book for Peter, then six, to read in church, which was in those