I Really Hope My Kids Don’t End Up In Therapy One Day
Mistakes. I make them all the time. In the parenting area especially. Example 1: My 7 year old daughter has to do a timed addition test every night. She usually gets to the end of the page with plenty of time left. The other night, for some reason she had four problems left when the [...]
Lenten Reflections: Celebrating Lent and Pascha Together . . . Apart
Today is Orthodox Easter, which we call Pascha. Christ is risen! Today’s guest bloggers are my Orthodox friends David and Roseanna Commini, who have spent this Lent/Pascha apart as David is overseas. David: My name is David, I am married to a wonderful woman and father to a very beautiful girl. I am currently deployed [...]
Bridegroom Matins
Bridegroom Matins is an Orthodox prayer service that occurs the first three days of Orthodox Holy Week. Though each day has a particular focus, all three days relate to the parable of the ten virgins. As the virgins wait for the bridegroom who comes in the middle of the night, Orthodox Christians ready themselves for [...]
Lenten Reflections: Excruciating Joy
Today’s guest blogger is my mom, Jean Roberts Knox. It’s hard to write a “bio” for her since she raised me, but I’ll try! Mom has taught piano, been a file clerk, been a missionary, and currently is an administrative assistant/office administrator at the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry. She rocks at [...]
Lenten Reflections: Lentgitimate
Today’s guest blogger is Samantha McElfresh, who was a student at a high school I taught at a few years ago. She is now a junior at the University of Tennessee studying English and secondary education with the goal of becoming an English teacher. She will be running her first half-marathon today! We wish her good [...]
