Category: Faith
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The Feastetarian Diet
Is there such thing as a Christian diet? Have you ever heard of “Christian food”? I’ve heard that Catholics eat fish on Fridays, and my friends that are Seventh Day Adventists don’t eat pork, but beyond that, I don’t know of any diet specific to Christianity. So I made up my own. It might have…
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Resources for Anglican/Episcopalian Homeschoolers
The Church of England website says that the Anglican faith is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Easter Orthodox and the Catholic Church. There are over 80 million of us … and maybe six of us homeschool? At least, that’s what it feels like sometimes… But you’re here now, and I…
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A New Old Way to Pray: Prayer Books and Lent
This year, for Lent, let’s embrace prayer books and the offices and “return to the ancient customs of ordering our days by prayer”. I’m possibly the world’s worst prayer. If I pray alone in my room, I inevitably fall asleep or end up mentally planning for the next day. And Heaven help me if I have to…
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Let Go of Perfect
My grandma made me a ceramic music box with Santa Claus on it when I was little. Every year, my mother put it out on the coffee table on December 1 — and not a day sooner. I so clearly remember the ragged cardboard box that we stored it in, and the way that the old shredded newspaper fell…
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My Epiphany
Yesterday was Epiphany, the day that we celebrate the three wise men visiting Jesus. We don’t know many of the details of that day – we don’t even know how many men there actually were. We do know, however, that they arrived much later after the birth than our Christmas cards depict – likely a whole year or two. I reflected…
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All the Time in the World
I started writing a post awhile ago about why we started homeschooling. There are lots of reasons, of course, but the best reason I could come up with is that homeschooling gives my kids and I time together. Lots of time. Too much time. (Ha ha. Kidding… mostly). Take our mornings, for example. Back when my…
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The Homeless Man and My Daughter
The other day we were driving home from Ikea and we stopped at a red light beside a homeless man. He stood on the median right beside our car with a scrap of cardboard that said something like “Hungry. Anything helps.” I knew I didn’t have anything; we had just left Ikea where I’d actually put my…