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The Kiddy Pool: All in the Olympic Family
The Olympics and the Church.
February 11, 2014
The Kiddy Pool: Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Paradox of the Loving Addict
"Every relationship with an addict follows the same patterns of peripheral powerlessness"
February 04, 2014
The Kiddy Pool: If a Pony Neighs in the Forest
Life and death are in our tongues, so let us speak words of life and...
January 2014
January 29, 2014
The Kiddy Pool: Marathon Mama
On running and mothering and grace above all.
January 14, 2014
The Kiddy Pool: Teaching Good Taste
"A steady diet of highly-processed, mass-produced junk food dulls the palate until we don’t really...
January 07, 2014
The Kiddy Pool: Reading The Dark as Children of the Light
A child's story of darkness and how it illuminates our fears.
December 2013
December 24, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Free Lunches and Child Labor
"Whether we treat children in poverty as inmates or as brothers and sisters speaks volumes...
December 10, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Katniss Everdeen and the Greatest Love
"The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds...
December 03, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: The Burden of Not Knowing & the Loving Arms of Advent
"I used to fear, during my pregnancy with my second daughter, that God would smite...
November 2013
November 19, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Joy Is Sufficient
"To produce anything of worth, we need to spend time producing nothing fearlessly."
November 13, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Jim Henson’s Compromise
"How many of us wrestle with the differences between our ideas of marriage and family...
November 05, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: “To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl”
U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins shares a poem on our significance and inconsequentialness.
July 2013
July 09, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Andrew Solomon’s ‘Far From the Tree’
"The challenge, it seems, is learning to love our children for who they are, for...
July 02, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Taking A Slower Family Path
"Parenting often seems about helping children 'get ahead,' accruing social capital in childhood to translate...
June 2013
June 25, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Only Children Are Lonely and Selfish (Just Like the Rest of Us)
"I think sometimes in the rhetoric about how many children we (or better yet, other...
June 18, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: What’s In A Name, Mrs. Carter?
"Our names tell us how we know ourselves, how we want to be known, and...
June 11, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Will Smith And His Family Are Superheroes. What’s Your Family Metaphor?
"Our families define us, and we define them, mapping out a microcosm of our vision...
May 2013
May 28, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: The Anniversary Trust Test
"All we can do each day is thank the Lord for new mercies, assess the...
May 21, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Remembering ‘The Office’… and Our Vows
"But that scene with Pam and Jim reminded me of something more, too, of something...
May 14, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Re-reading Gatsby (Careless People and Beautiful Little Fools)
"The problem with reading the book at age 15 was that I, a privileged idealist...
April 2013
April 11, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Machiavelli and the Pruning Parent
Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must...
January 2013
January 15, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: Childhood Innocence Up in Smoke
"Where most Americans see a juxtaposition of purity and corruption, one that offends our sensibilities,...
January 08, 2013
The Kiddy Pool: The Princess Paradox
"While I appreciate the concept behind the Christian princess, Scripture doesn't talk about God’s children...
November 2012
November 27, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: The Nutcracker, Inside Out
"... I too had been swept into the magic of Nutcracker’s world, my daughter’s world,...
November 20, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: The Rudolph Incident
"It wasn’t until I stopped to reflect on the way home that I realized what...
November 13, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: Mighty Oaks from Acorns Grow
". . . mixed with that fragility is a gracefulness that speaks to the eloquence...
October 2012
October 23, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: A Case for Catechism
Every week in The Kiddy Pool, Erin Newcomb confronts one of many issues that parents must...
October 16, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: Diapers, for the Glory of God
I got pregnant with my first daughter almost 4 years ago now; I subsequently carried...
October 09, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: We Are… God’s Handiwork(ers)
"I think that creative itch derives directly from our origins as creatures made in God’s...
October 01, 2012
The Kiddy Pool: Project Runway’s “It’s Fashion Baby”
"It’s my job to to treat them as whole humans while demonstrating that even if...
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