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September 2016

September 15, 2016
  Bringing up topics like intersectionality and everything that entails can with kids can be...
September 12, 2016
“God is the God of woman every bit as fiercely as God is the God...
September 08, 2016
The American Church is facing a child abuse epidemic. This epidemic transcends denominational and theological...
September 05, 2016
As I continue to work on my Raising Children Unfundamentalist book project, concocting antidotes for the...
September 01, 2016
I have an estranged parent who was emotionally abusive to me growing up, and still...

August 2016

August 30, 2016
I said “crap” the other day and my children lost their “crap.” “You said the...
August 29, 2016
Image: Pixabay It’s easy to make comparisons while parenting. Our translation of the Bible is...
August 25, 2016
Many important curriculums on race, racism, slavery, and the Black Lives Matter movement already exist....
August 24, 2016
Image: Pixabay A lot of progressive Christians, those of us who grew up “on fire...
August 18, 2016
    We were sitting in a Starbucks in London, my sister-in-law, her two young...
August 16, 2016
As a parent, there are many things I love about Christianity and want my children...
August 15, 2016
Faith without doubt is dogma. It’s airtight, stale, and leads to death of the spirit....
August 08, 2016
I am a mother and I am a blogger, but I have felt completely foreign...
August 04, 2016
A few weeks ago we had a conversation in our Raising Children Unfundamentalist Facebook group...
August 02, 2016
Who, if your child asks for bread, would give him a stone? As parents, we...
August 01, 2016
There are few greater opportunities for parents to express the importance of faith than within...

July 2016

July 28, 2016
Wolves will live at peace with lambs,  and leopards will lie down in peace with...
July 25, 2016
As I am writing my book on Raising Children UnFundamentalist, I find it has become...
July 21, 2016
*a peek into my school/curriculum planning notebook* Things I want my kids to learn next...
July 20, 2016
Image: Pixabay Several years ago, as a newly-hired education consultant working for the Department of...
July 15, 2016
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac,...
July 13, 2016
I had a “single conversion” experience when I was a kid - a moment where...
July 11, 2016
My newsfeed has been awash with lament over the tragedies occurring all over the country....
July 07, 2016
*a peek into my school/curriculum planning notebook* Things I want my kids to learn next...
July 06, 2016
Image: from Robbell.com SPECIAL OFFER for the readers of Unfundamentalist Parenting! Rob Bell, beloved speaker...
July 05, 2016
Photo Credit: Dan Cottle - creative commons licence It is easy enough to dismiss a...
July 04, 2016
When it comes to American Christianity, we often see the worst in ourselves.  We’re cynical...

June 2016

June 30, 2016
Growing up, I was always interested in world religions. While I accepted Jesus into my...
June 29, 2016
The Spanish version of the original “Curious George” found its way to our bookshelf via...
June 28, 2016
Most resources help parents and educators talk to children about GLBTQ issues but not very much...
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