In the crucial work to name and eradicate racism in our country, we offer these two excerpts on how to engage children and teens around racial injustice. Both excerpts are from When Kids Ask Hard Questions: Faith-filled Responses to Tough Topics.Engaging Kids about...
It happens from time to time—often unexpectedly. I call it “The Phil Situation.” You’re at a neighborhood Labor Day barbeque, or a company Holiday party, or a family reunion with distant kin from Enid you didn’t know you had—when, all...
Death, dying, and grief has become all the more real during this global pandemic ... and still, very few of us are prepared to talk about it. Now, former hospital chaplain and “grief guru" Dana Trent offers a way to...
The deep divide in our country’s politics is easy to see as fall 2020 arrives. You can probably spot a variety of yard signs in your own neighborhood, and nasty campaign ads already dominate the airwaves. The polarization of our...
Whether your kids are going back to school online, headed to a physical building, or homeschooling, we know this is a challenging time for everyone - parents, teachers, and children alike! Here are several prayers to pray with your family from Traci...
It’s 2020, the most chronologically confusing year any of us have ever experienced. So let’s look ahead with anticipation to the end of the year: Advent and Christmas. Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too… It’s the...
I was rocking out on Interstate 55 in snow-dusted central Illinois, driving to a press run for a book, when the music stopped for an incoming call. I naturally half-assumed it was a spammer, but I checked caller ID and...
This month, Chalice Press releases a new daily devotional for prayer and spiritual growth, Liberating Love: 365 Love Notes from God, by activist and pastor Sandhya Rani Jha. In the midst of a global pandemic, civil unrest, and a national reckoning with...
“Where is the holy in this chaos?” is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately, as the days merge together as one long episode of groundhog day. I look at the numbers come in of positive cases of...
