Summer Spiritual Toolkit
Helpful Articles: Intentional Practices
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Having the Summer of a Child - growchristians.org
“What if we stopped?
What if we approached those moments of summer, those holy moments of pause, rest, renewal, and rejuvenation with an attitude of gratitude and intention?
What if we had the summer of a child?” -
Experiencing Thin Places as Family - growchristians.org
“Where are your thin places? Where are the places where the barrier between heaven and earth are so thin that the two worlds feel like one? Where are the places where you consistently experience God’s presence with intimacy and immediacy?”
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Praying Compline with Children during the Summer - growchristians.org
“Saying the short liturgy of Compline alongside my family teaches me to keep dreaming of and working for a church that inspires, enlightens, and liberates. Ending the day bathed in candlelight at the table with our children reminds me that Christ’s dream for loving our neighbor and offering liberation lives in me because God’s spirit dwells in me. Despite how many people these days blatantly use Christianity as a method for manipulation and control, Jesus did not stand for empire and domination; he turned toward suffering and he stood for full liberation of our bodies, of our minds, and of our lives. If I don’t at least try to help my children experience a Christianity that illuminates, frees, inspires, and offers peace, how will they ever come to love it enough to repair or reform it?”
Book Recommendations / Book Lists
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Books about faith with inclusive lustrations and progressive theology
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This list of books to teach kids about racism and compassion
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Books for kids about Palestine + Jenan Matari’s Everything Grows in Jiddos Garden
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Books About Immigration, Migration, & Refugees
