Every year at the beginning of the year, I join the Goodreads Reading Challenge. I almost always choose to set my goal at 100 books recognizing that my reading includes my own reading, reading aloud with our kids, and reading aloud with my students. Each year I think I will meet my goal without any […]
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One year ago, I preached my last sermon at the church where I was called right before our six-year-old was born. I preached not knowing when I would preach again. I preached not knowing a lot about the journey I was being called on, but knowing that I was being called to reimagine and to
Twas the night before school And all through the house every creature was stirring and bouncing about. The summer sun had kissed all their cheeks while splashing and jumping into all kinds of fun. The backpacks were packed with pencils and scissors and glue sticks to spare in hopes that they would all have a
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Our twenty-three-month-old has become entranced with the camera function on our phones. She hasn’t quite mastered how to capture what she is trying to…or has she? I couldn’t help but smile as I looked at these portraits and peeks into her world. There were a lot of pictures of people’s knees and a lot of
This summer, our nine-year-old and six-year-old tried something new…they joined swim team! As I fumbled through ordering swim team suits, finding goggles that wouldn’t leak, and trying to figure out what the difference between 25s, 50s, IMs, and relays were, they flourished. They have been swimming since they were infants, but not with stroke expectations
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This weekend, my family joined me as I graduated from the inaugural TIDEL Fellowship through Union Theological Seminary. This was an 18-month fellowship and I listened to the keynote on the importance of techno-selectivity in the an AI world, I realized just how much life we had lived in 18 months. We had lived in
My lesson plans are filled with reflection activities as I try to guide my almost middle schoolers to think about what they have learned over the course of their elementary year. We are asking questions like, “What did you learn that you will always remember? What advice do you have for the rising 5th graders?
It was superhero day, which I had forgotten until the notification dinged on my phone. I dashed to our nine-year-old’s closet to see what I could find for three of us to wear to show our support for the school spirit day. As I rifled through the closet, I found the superhero cape I had
Our kitchen was in full-swing this morning as we prepared pickles and pound cake to celebrate this holy weekend. Because this is a time to celebrate. We have almost made it through the long forty days as we have followed Jesus’ life and ministry. We have wondered what it meant for this teacher to be
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This is the moment we have been waiting for. It’s the moment throughout the gospel of Luke that we have heard about. Jesus has been predicting this death and his betrayal since right after he fed the five thousand. He knew where his journey would lead even though his disciples didn’t understand what he was
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