faith
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What does it feel like to pray?
the pictures included in this week’s post are from my wife and my trip to Japan in the summer of 2024 In my post last week, I wrote a little about the experience of what it feels like to pray.… Continue reading
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Both kids and spirituality (not ‘or’!)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this blog. My last post was in November! I had planned on keeping up this blog every week, posting something each Thursday. But things get in the way, especially when you’re a… Continue reading
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Teaching Halloween and All Saints
When my daughter asked me “But what IS Halloween”, I realized that I had two choices. I could focus on the purely secular holiday, or I could focus on the religious aspect. I could do both, of course, but my… Continue reading
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How do you read the Bible?
The Bible is Christian Scripture, but what does it mean for something to be a community’s “Scripture”? The Bible is our holy book, God’s word to us in writing, a sacred text in which we find the presence of something… Continue reading
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Talking to a nine-year old (Part 2)
Two weeks ago, I posted about a little interview I did with my nine-year old daughter. I asked her questions about God, about following Jesus, and about what it’s like for her to be in church and in worship. Here… Continue reading
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Talking with a nine-year old about God
I enjoying hearing what children think and feel about religion. Or, to be more specific, I like to think of questions to ask children about religion, and I like to talk with them about their answers. I was in academia… Continue reading
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God is also in the empty skies
A few weeks ago, I went on a trip to Japan. And while on the flight, in the skies above those small little islands in southwest Alaska, a thought came to me: God is here, too. Now, quite obviously God… Continue reading
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Japan, Christianity, and Prayer
For the past two weeks, I’ve been traveling with my wife. We left the kids with my mother-in-law, hopped on the plane in Newark, NJ at 8:00 in the morning, and were in Japan the afternoon of the following day.… Continue reading
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Children, prayer, and song
Today marks the second day of summer break for my kids, and so for two months they will be much more a part of my daily work- and prayer-life. Yesterday, I met a few parishioners at a coffee shop to… Continue reading
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Beginning to Pray (again)
I’ve come to a place in daily prayer where I feel like I’m only just getting started. In a way, this isn’t a surprising feeling. As we go deeper and deeper into a practice (into any kind of practice), we… Continue reading
Incense and Crayons 