~ by Andrew Tash Not too long ago, I awoke from a dream of an orchard and it felt like I’d been there before. And in that dream-awareness that comes when the narrator starts talking, I realized that I had been. I’d seen these as mere twigs poking out from their root stocks. But now … Continue reading
by David Grummon So let’s leave it alone ‘cause we don’t see eye to eye There ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy There’s only you and me and we just disagree -Dave Mason, 1977 So I wanted to write a piece on teaching kids how to disagree without being disagreeable. That is … Continue reading
~ By Elizabeth Dilley In the past month, I have received two gifts. The first was a knotted cross, given to me and four other women by a dear mutual friend, around whom we virtually gathered over the past year as that friend received treatment for breast cancer. This cross is a celebration of the … Continue reading
~by Christine Gough We are knee deep in the middle of summer these days and as a teacher with two boys at home–ages 6 and 10–we create a summer bucket list each year. Rather than seeing this list as a prescriptive, stressful agenda of to-dos, it actually gives our days a little structure and allows … Continue reading
~by Corey Fields Life can be an exercise in doing lots of work for what is relatively a moment of reward. You practice that Christmas cantata at church for months and it’s over in 45 minutes. You plan and fundraise for that international mission trip — often more than a year of prep for a … Continue reading
~by Lynace Pabst Veit Attending worship has always been a significant part of my life. With both parents in ministry there was rarely a Sunday that I missed church. We were the first to arrive in the morning, the last ones to leave, and there we sat every Sunday in the second pew from the front. … Continue reading
The Practicing Families editors are working on some site changes and a writing schedule for the new year. In the meantime, enjoy this post from January 2014. –Christine Gough Back in October or November, I started feeling the presence of Advent and its weight on the calendar despite the fall leaves hanging on trees and … Continue reading
—by Joanna Harader As one of the founding editors of this blog, I feel like I should be a shining example of family spiritual practices. But the truth is that most weeks we’re doing well to pray before meals and get everyone to church. Family devotions, bedtime prayers, Bible coloring pages, prayer walks . . … Continue reading
by Keeva Kase As we approach the third Sunday of Advent – the season of expectancy for the newborn Christ – we are encouraged to remember the prophesy of Micah 5: “And they shall dwell securely, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth: he shall be peace.” This prophecy, as … Continue reading
–By Matt Clingan I would like to take the discussion of the election and move it someplace else. There is a lot of noise and obscuring of truth. Both of them say things that have truth as they see and understand it. Sometimes it is hard to know the truth. I have two friends of … Continue reading
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