My daughter was begging me to let her skip religious education earlier this month. “Whyyyyyyy do I have to go?” she asked me. “Because it’s good to learn about Jesus,” I answered. “But I already know EVERYTHINNNGGG about Jesus,” she pleaded with me. “Sweetie,” I said patiently (for real, it was a good day for…
Author: Maria Huemmer
The comfort of sheephood
Good shepherd Sunday was this past Sunday and I had a fun time teaching it to my kindergarten RE class. Most of the kids wanted to be wolves and attacked the poor sheep when the hires shepherd was there. I’ve always taken the message, Isn’t it great that our Shepherd is there to guide us…
Advent and signs of the season
I recently read something about the kinds of Christmas that are celebrated. There’s secular Christmas that starts very close to Thanksgiving and ends on the 25th and then there’s Christmas that starts on Advent and then Christmas as we define it in the Christmas season and the debates about whether it ends on epiphany or…