Emerging Parents

I recently cam across an article by Bryan Welch called Parenting Makes Environmentalism Personal. In it he writes -
Before I had children, I felt I had engineered a secure little world for myself. I lived in a nice place. I had a few nice hobbies. My work was interesting. I could avoid, for the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

To start the conversation here, I just want to throw out a very basic question – What is it that we want this blog to be? What sort of topics do you want to discuss? What resources are you looking for? What would you find helpful for this community to offer you? [...]