Emerging Parents

I took the books that had been recommended here recently and created a couple Amazon lists that I added to our Resources section. The lists are –
Recommended Reading
Recommended Children’s Books
These of course can be expanded as more people suggest resources, but I hope this can be a helpful start. Since this is [...]

Yesterday around the blogworld a SynchroBlog was held that focused on the the topic of “a Christian response to Halloween.” A SynchroBlog (synchronized blogging as it were) is where a bunch of people post on the same topic on the same day. It’s fun to read the variety of responses one gets in [...]

I had originally posted this on my blog last summer, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss here. It’s a rant, a bit extreme, but focused on a very real issue.
Okay serious rant to follow. What is with our country moving towards more and more discrimination. Entire groups of people [...]

One of the things I remember most fondly about my dad was his inclusion of the children in the church he pastored. He believed they should minister to the body of Christ in all the ways the grown-ups did. When Jesus said not to hinder the little children from coming to him, and [...]

Some may be interested to read this review of a delightful book by Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson and his granddaughter Solveig. It certainly offers one model whereby we can engage in conversation about ‘theology-stuff’ with kids. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t want to do that. Some of them are our best theologians!

Hi all. I will be posting later today or tomorrow on ways we can structure this blog to help focus the conversations and help differing viewpoints be heard. More on that later.
But I would first like to start compiling some resource lists for us as Emerging Parents. I know that often we [...]

This reflection comes from my wife, Ricci.
Since the birth of our daughter, maybe even before, I’ve been thinking about homeschooling.
A little background to give you perspective is that I’m a trained public school teacher. And having worked with some extremely educated, creative, and indefatigable people, I have nothing but respect for the profession. [...]

Soundtrack: Starship “Sara”/Journey “Any Way You Want It”
Ask any three parents about discipline and you get six opinions. And certainly there’s diversity in our nascent community on all the facets of the discipline deal. And that’s good, because my sense is most of us are detoxing from prescriptive church.
In company with some fellow parents in [...]

Soundtrack: Beastie Boys “Brass Monkey”/Christopher Cross “Sailing” – gotta love the shuffle…
There’s this great story in Joshua 4 where, in the midst of crossing the Jordan into the Land of Promise, Joshua has some guys pick up 12 stones to pile up later on. The rock pile has two functions – it’s a visual trigger [...]

Many of us have mentioned that we struggle to find our way as “emerging” parents. We encounter friends and family who think we are crazy or who aren’t remotely interested in talking about alternative ways of parenting. We can’t find resources that support the life we want to lead. We are surrounded [...]