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Spiritual Practices for Use During a Traumatic News Event [Download]
Friends – It is hard to know what to say to and with children during times of national trauma. Please receive these two practices, “Snuggled Under God’s Wings” and the “Butterfly Prayer” for you to use with your families and congregations. Ministers and Children’s Ministers, please distribute freely to anyone who needs them, courtesy of Chalice
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Taking a Spiritual Inventory (with printable worksheet!)
The older I get, the more convinced I am that our spiritual health and wellness is vital to our physical, emotional, and psychological health and wellness as well. (I guess I’m in the right profession!) In other areas of wellness I see a lot of resources for assessment. There are lots of ways to
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Someone You Should Know: Matthew Paul Turner
I guess you could say I have Amazon.com to thank for my emerging friendship with Matthew Paul Turner, the author of When God Made You. You see, whenever I checked the Amazon listing for Faithful Families *ahem* yes, I look up my own book *ahem* I noticed it said “frequently bought with When God Made You.” (Seriously, check it out,
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Mental Clarity and Peace for Parents: 4 Apps I Recommend
Last night on Facebook Live, I got to talking about some of the apps I use as Spiritual Practices. As I said on the broadcast, for me doing a spiritual practice isn’t an “all or nothing” enterprise. I don’t use all four of these apps every day. Rather, I pick one up for a
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Ten Essential Children’s Books about Grief for Church and School Libraries, and Home Use (+ Additional Resources)
I’m often asked, both in my role as pastor and also as an author of a book on faith and family about what resources I recommend for children who are grieving. In this post I link to ten books I recommend for children and families. Check out the age recommendations as well as a short sentence
Family Faith Resources for Lent, 2017
Ash Wednesday at Home – Written by Jerusalem Greer last year. Love love LOVE this. Photo Guide, daily devotion, and family activities, put out by the Florida Conference of the UMC. #PictureLent Making Pretzels for Lent is a fun family activity. The pretzels are meant to look like hands folded in prayer. Doing this annually
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Someone You Should Know: Jerusalem Greer
From time to time I’ll be talking to someone new about Seamless Faith (soon to be re-released as Faithful Families!) and that person will ask “Do you know Jerusalem Greer? I think you two would really get along.” The answer I give is always “Kinda.” The truth is, I “met” Jerusalem through the wild internet
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How to Help Your Grandchildren Grow In Faith: Ideas for Grandparents
I’m speaking about faith practices and families this week at Mo Ranch in Hunt, Texas. I’m half-way through the workshops (two down, two to go!) but one of the things that I’ve found so far is the same thing I find nearly every time I present about faith practices and children: a lot of grandmothers show
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4 Spiritual Practices to Reduce Anxiety and Stress #spiritualpractice #anxiety #stress
Like so many people I struggle to find peace amid stress and anxiety. Anxiety and stress take so many different forms in our lives: headaches, panic attacks, muscle tension, and on and on. Negative effects of stress on our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being are well known and researched. What to do about it?
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