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 went […]
Lent
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. My
Engaging Lenten Practices as a Family
I’ve been thinking a lot over the past few weeks about how my family might engage the traditional Lenten practices.
Break Open The Story: Approaching Good Friday Anew
If Palm Sunday’s approach to the Passion skips too quickly through the events of Holy Week, I would propose an approach to Good Friday that reverses the balance
The Very Stones
Jesus replies, “I tell you, if they keep quiet, the very stones will cry out.”
The often overlooked wisdom of children
Recently a dear mentor shared some stories of her current work, which explores how the particular gifts of children’s sense of the spiritual world might inform a sustainable response to the climate crisis
Lent
Shouldering Our Way through Good Friday
Shouldering is a way of moving upwards, out of the darkness and into the light. Not unlike human shoulders that shrug and scrunch, sometimes toward the ears and sometimes back down toward the belly, when a vegetable is good and ready it will scrunch and shoulder toward the sky.
The humble intimacy of Maundy Thursday
Looking back at the Grow Christians pandemic posts for Maundy Thursday about the creative ways families shared this night’s ritual, part of me wonders if our church services can ever approach the intimacy of the footwashing done by family members for one another.