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Making Palm Sunday Special for Children

“The disciples brought donkey to Jesus and threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. As he ...
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Holy Week at Home

For many families, attending church on a weeknight is challenging, to say the least. School, sports, lessons, orthodontist appointments - ...
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Autopilot, Unpacking, and This Year’s Lent

Our family moved this winter. We're in the same town, just in another house about a mile down the road ...
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Bonhoeffer Calls Us to Action

Today we celebrate the feast day of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who was, maybe most notably, an ...
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Martin Luther King was a Christian First

Many social movements, even those founded on strong convictions and good intentions, often flounder over time. They may lack a ...
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Grace in the Garden

A couple of months after the pandemic started, I drove a couple of miles down Fruitvale Avenue, determined to purchase ...
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Celebrating the Mary’s Audacity on the Feast of the Annunciation

Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord: Let it be with me according to your word.”—Luke ...
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Saint Joseph, Fatherhood, and Fitted Bedsheets

In March 2019, I first learned that I was going to be a father. In those initial moments, I felt ...
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The Promise of Being Marked as Christ’s Own

Do you like snakes? I am not particularly fond of them, so if Saint Patrick popped around to banish them ...
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Watching My Kids Acolyte

Boredom is a safe and loved child's worst nightmare. Keeping the mind busy when the body is required to sit ...
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Perpetua’s Challenge to Rethink Adulthood

“I am a Christian.”—The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. Tr. Thomas J Heffernan. Oxford University Press, 2012. When did you ...
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Parenting in the Wilderness this Lent

I remember the jokes that weren’t entirely joking as we entered Lent in 2021…wait, hasn’t the last year been a ...
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Making Palm Sunday Special for Children

“The disciples brought donkey to Jesus and threw their cloaks on the colt and put Jesus on it. As he ...
/

Holy Week at Home

For many families, attending church on a weeknight is challenging, to say the least. School, sports, lessons, orthodontist appointments - ...
/

Autopilot, Unpacking, and This Year’s Lent

Our family moved this winter. We're in the same town, just in another house about a mile down the road ...
/

Bonhoeffer Calls Us to Action

Today we celebrate the feast day of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor who was, maybe most notably, an ...
/

Martin Luther King was a Christian First

Many social movements, even those founded on strong convictions and good intentions, often flounder over time. They may lack a ...
/

Grace in the Garden

A couple of months after the pandemic started, I drove a couple of miles down Fruitvale Avenue, determined to purchase ...
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