With a Peep Peep here, and a Peep Peep there: An Easter-themed snack for a Cub Scouts meeting April 12, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window For weeks our first grader has been reminding me that soon it would be our turn to bring the snack to Cub Scouts. I haven’t focused much on it, but he has been taking it very seriously.Our turn came the Wednesday before Easter—Spy Wednesday—so I suggested we should bring pretzels.
A week of turmoil and triumph April 6, 2017By Christopher Gunty Filed Under: Behind the Headlines, Blog, Commentary Each year, we celebrate the most momentous week in all of history, a week filled with turmoil and triumph: Holy Week.
Some of my best friends are journalists April 6, 2017By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Baltimore Boomer, Blog At some point my parents left it to my older siblings to correct my behavior at St. Rose of Lima in Brooklyn. Two memories stand out, once for slouching as an altar server, the other in a pew, for not washing from my neck and arms the newsprint that had
7 Quick Takes Friday: April Fools Day, fishing in the cold, a dragon in the sky, a visit to a beloved playground, and the start of baseball season April 6, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window How did you celebrate April Fools Day?
Answered prayers (or the story of a missing watch) April 3, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window Every day during Lent we pull a slip of paper out of our prayer basket and read the name of the person or people listed there.We’ve prayed for cousins and grandparents, deceased family members and living friends. We share stories about the people we’re praying for, and—when I think of
The Litany of Trust: A Prayer for our Times April 3, 2017By Hanael Bianchi Filed Under: Blog, Fertile Soil It was a typical Saturday in late January. My best friend was helping me install a laminate floor in our living room. We took a break to have lunch together, and chitchatted for a bit before he left. Four days later, I received a series of frantic text messages and
Hold us, Mary March 31, 2017By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional Bedtime at the Barberrys is nothing short of a production. There are bathtime adventures, pajama races, and our own version of “circle time” where we discuss the events of the day and our dreams for tomorrow. This is followed by stories, including: perennial favorites like “Goodnight, Goodnight Construction
Gifts from my Grandmother March 31, 2017By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional My grandmother, Marion Thuma Snyder Johnston, told me this story many years ago and said that she wanted to write it someday. She passed away peacefully on March 30, 2017. She didn’t get a chance to put it into writing, so I’m going to make sure that her
Please don’t fine my homeless neighbors March 31, 2017By Robyn Barberry Filed Under: Blog, Unconditional I live in a small city outside of Baltimore called Aberdeen. It’s a modest town, born of the canning industry and railroad, where most people work hard to live peaceful lives in little neighborhoods. Unfortunately, just under two hundred of our neighbors are unable to afford homes for a variety
Never too old for bedtime kiss March 30, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window This Lenten season, as we fast and serve and pray, I hope we can try to find moments just to be with God.
Seeing as God sees March 29, 2017By Father J. Collin Poston Filed Under: Blog, Dust and Dewfall Last Sunday, the “midway point” of Lent, we heard the beautiful, amazing account from the Gospel of John of the “man born blind” (John 9:1-41.) In it we see a beautiful progression of faith, not so much unlike the one of the Samaritan woman who earlier proclaimed Christ to her
What we found when we went birthday gift shopping March 28, 2017By Rita Buettner Filed Under: Blog, Open Window If ever there were an aunt who deserves to be celebrated, it’s Aunt Shai. She gives her nieces and nephews her undivided attention, plays with them for hours, reads to them, and teaches them how to make up stories with their toys.So even though it wasn’t clear that she wanted
