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How to Throw a Pancake Party
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Pancake Party Planning Update
Well, yesterday I was all talk. Today I’m all action! I am brilliant and amazing. I went and chatted to ... Continue reading
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Our Shrove Tuesday Pancake Party!
We did it! Shrove Tuesday has been well and truly celebrated in our apartment building. It was a bit of a ... Continue reading
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A Generous Lent, Act 1: Build a Generosity Kit
Let’s be generous with ourselves, too, this Lent. Take your time over the generosity challenge. I certainly will be. It’s not ... Continue reading
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Education and Schooling #5: On the Weekend [Guest]
Without wanting to profile y’all, there is an extraordinarily high chance that you are a fabulous parent. I have this ... Continue reading
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Education and Schooling #11: Unschooling, Schooling and Socialisation
If you had a six-year-old child, and institutional schooling had never existed, how would you go about preparing them for ... Continue reading
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Matters of Life and Death: Are You an Unborn Baby’s Neighbour?
This is a post about crisis pregnancy that is aimed mainly at those in a position to support an unborn ... Continue reading
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Matters of Life and Death: Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy
My sermon on Sunday and the accompanying blog post were mainly directed at the ‘neighbours’ of an unborn child: those ... Continue reading
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7 Easy Tips for Throwing a Low-Stress Pancake Party
Shrove Tuesday is the next big day in the church calendar. Time to party with pancakes! Many of you will ... Continue reading
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What’s the Point of Lent? #3: Orthodox Practices
This is the third in a mini-series looking at how different traditions celebrate Lent. You might like to start with ... Continue reading
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(Everybody Needs Good) Neighbours Day [Guest]
Sorry, couldn’t resist the reference to my fond 1990s memories of Kylie and Jason at 7pm, five nights a week. ... Continue reading
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Lent with Kids, Week 3: Jesus Gives Us Important Jobs
This is an all-in-one post for Week 3 of our Lent with Kids plan. To fill in some background, start here. ... Continue reading
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Easter with Kids: 32 Ideas for Celebrating Together
We’re now in Holy Week, where Lent morphs into Easter. In my house we’ll continue lighting our Lenten candles and ... Continue reading
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47 Christmas Gifts that can Change the World
How can something as (potentially) shallow as Christmas shopping be a great way to make a difference in the world? Easy :) If we aspire to living a life where our actions reflect our values, then how...
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Making Parenting Easier: Tips, Laughs, and Being Kind to Yourself
Parenting is flipping hard work, yes? You’re responsible for, as my friend Jess says, tiny sociopaths. They’re cute, sure, but they have little in the way of empathy, self-control, or social graces....
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Why this New Zealander cares about what’s happening in the United States
During the United States primaries, I had to consciously limit my fascination with US politics and remind myself that it was getting daily updates on the campaign trail shenanigans wasn’t much...
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