Welcome! I’m Summer Kinard, author of Of Such is the Kingdom: A Practical Theology of Disability. This post provides supporting…
When I speak at conferences and workshops, there’s one question that someone always asks. They pull me over to the…
When I was a teenager, I went to a legalistic Baptist Bible Fellowship church that generously picked me up each…
Lazarus was listening for Jesus long before he died. He would hear his friend’s voice on the road of an afternoon and rush to find his sisters.
“Martha, bring the good olives. Mary, set out your finest cheese. I will get the water to wash his feet.”
He listened for the voice on his sickbed, his deathbed, and in the tomb, he listened.
In the run-up to Lent, the daily readings take a turn towards length and seriousness. In a parallel to the…
We’ve used the original visual schedule almost every week for the past three years to help my children participate in…
One of the ways to invite families into praying together is to keep things simple and accessible. This set of…
Why should we seek happiness, the cynics wonder, when life is hard and people are stupid and cruel or at…
I’ve been reading a lot lately about imperfect hospitality. If you have survived the “entertaining” culture of the late 1990s…
Have you ever wished there was a way to get children’s attention instead of having to cajole them about their…