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Spiritually parenting my geeklings
In certain ways, being a geek dad is easy. Passing on my geek values involves playing Legos with my kids, doing science experiments on our own pee, and forcing them to stay up late to watch Cosmos on...
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In defense of Bible stories
I have spent a long time hating Bible story books. They tell a little story in isolation from the rest of the Bible’s narrative, and then they draw out some facile and vacuous moral, like: “Go be like...
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Kids make the road by walking, too
Brian McLaren says “we make the road by walking,” that we discover and build our faith by living it. My wife and I agree with this. But we never thought our kids would be making the road with us....
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Week 2: Being Human
Today our family continues our year-long trek through the Bible, following its overarching storyline as laid out in Brian McLaren’s WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING. Our goal is to induct our children (12,...
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Week 3: A World of Meaning
Today our family continues our year-long trek through the big storyline of the Bible, using Brian McLaren’s WE MAKE THE ROAD BY WALKING as a guide for inducting our 3 children into our love for the...
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Future plans for “We Make the Road with Kids”
This picture encapsulates everything I know about parenting. Here’s what you can look for in the coming months in this section of the site: A constantly-evolving set of 52 pages, packed with resources...
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Free resource for a new kind of Christian family
Are you an Emerging-ish parent struggling to share the Bible with your kids? Subscribe for free weekly resources for using Brian McLaren’s We Make the Road by Walking with children, synced with...
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Week 8: Rivalry or Reconciliation?
NOTE TO NEW READERS: While our weekly email newsletter “We Make the Road With Kids” is synced to the calendar sequence starting August 31, my current series of blog posts documents my own family’s...
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Week 9: Freedom!
This week our after-dinner Bible conversation comes to chapter 9 of Brian McLaren’s We Make the Road by Walking. Below are some of the digital resources we’ll be using. (Subscribe to We Make the Road...
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Consent – Talk with your geeklings about it!
I’m mostly focused on the “We Make the Road With Kids” project right now, but one of the next places I want to go with this blog is to talk about Geeks and Sex. Because, let’s face it, geekiness was...
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