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Youth Meditation: Getting mad
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading
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Youth Meditation: Happy Birthday St. John the Baptist!
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading
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Youth Meditation: Nature sings about God
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading
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Youth Meditation: Do things because you love them
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well. You… Continue reading
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Youth Meditation: On wanting so desperately
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well.… Continue reading
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Youth Meditation: I take refuge in you, O God
The following is a part of a meditation series that I write with my wife, called Somedays’ Meditations. We started it in our home parish for our tweens, and we thought it would be helpful to folks online as well.… Continue reading
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No more Santa, but that’s okay
My ten year old daughter found out about Santa. It was somewhat anticlimactic, actually. We have a podcast about the intersection between religion and video games, and we had a rabbi as a guest. The rabbi was telling us how… Continue reading
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Why form a youth group?
My church has the exciting opportunity in that we get to form a youth group for middle schoolers. We have just three or four middle schoolers, aged 10 to 12, so it would be small, but small things at church… Continue reading
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The human stories of Scripture
“Foxes have their dens, and birds of the air have their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” How lonely must Jesus have been to have said this. Or should we read it theologically, as… Continue reading
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Storytelling, Children, and Spirituality
As I raise my children, especially as I raise them spiritually, I’m surprised at how much time I spend telling stories. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise, I feel, because Christianity (my faith) is fundamentally a storytelling religion. Some… Continue reading
Incense and Crayons 