The Kiddy Pool: An Easter People
We might find a yard scattered with candy-filled eggs and we might find an empty tomb. Neither one can fill us or satisfy us like the Resurrected Christ
The Kiddy Pool: Birthday Fatigue
At birthday parties, kids want to binge on fun and the parents want to binge on memory.
The Kiddy Pool: Tiny Dancer
The decision-making process of enrolling my daughter in dance class reflected the tension of choosing and letting go.
The Kiddy Pool: Our ‘Much Loved’ Stuffed Animals
Our stuffed animals see us and cuddle us at our most vulnerable, and never complain as we lose our hair or our original shape or the full functioning of our limbs.
The Kiddy Pool: All Joy and No Fun
When my husband chafes at the line “These things are fun, and fun is good” in Dr. Seuss’ One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, I get it—because neither one of us sees fun as something we ought to be striving for.
The Kiddy Pool: A Chaos Muppet in the Midst of Order Muppets
Parenting: “I just let it happen, because I’ve got to do the dishes at some point.”
The Kiddy Pool: All in the Olympic Family
The Olympics and the Church.
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.”
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 love, words that uplift and edify, words that frame our children’s worldviews as holy and pleasing to God.
The Kiddy Pool: Marathon Mama
On running and mothering and grace above all.
The Kiddy Pool: Teaching Good Taste
“A steady diet of highly-processed, mass-produced junk food dulls the palate until we don’t really know what we’re tasting any more.”
The Kiddy Pool: Reading The Dark as Children of the Light
A child’s story of darkness and how it illuminates our fears.
The Kiddy Pool: Free Lunches and Child Labor
“Whether we treat children in poverty as inmates or as brothers and sisters speaks volumes about the Gospel we preach and practice”
The Kiddy Pool: White Santa and White Jesus at Home
“It’s not just that Santa is most frequently depicted as white, it’s that so many people simultaneously insist on his whiteness as essential and obvious without recognizing what that says about how much race actually matters to us.”
The Kiddy Pool: Katniss Everdeen and the Greatest Love
“The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds of sacrifices, for whom, and for what causes, we’re willing to make.”
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 me for feeling ungrateful”
