A Curriculum of Stale Chips
Note: This is fourth in a series about teaching. Click to read Part 1: The Incredible Power of a Teacher, Part 2: Creating a Community of Belonging, and Part 3: When Trauma Appears at...
Author: Bailey
When Trauma Appears at Church
Note: This is a third post in a series about teaching. Click to read Part 1: The Incredible Power of a Teacher and Part 2: Creating a Community of Belonging. “And this,” said the...
Creating a Community of Belonging – It Matters at Church
‘There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us’ these lyrics from the West Side Story song “Somewhere” kept floating through my mind while writing this post, the second in a series about...
What Does Active Mean Anyway?
Recently in a conversation a person I was talking with stated somewhat jokingly that whether or not I consider myself ‘active’ in the church probably changes from day-to-day. The comment caught me off guard...
The Incredible Power of a Teacher
This is the first post in a series about foundational concepts in teaching applied to a church setting. “Who is the teacher?” is often the first question people ask about a class whether it’s...
God Did’t Command Polygamy so Let’s Stop Saying That
Growing up in the 80s my parents purchased a full set of dramatized scripture cassette tapes from the Living Scriptures which included all the LDS standard works plus stories from church history. (Suddenly feeling...
Jesus Made a Feminist Out of Me
Growing up, I never heard the f-word in my house. No, not that one, although I didn’t hear that one either; I didn’t hear the other f-word: (whispers) feminist. I did encounter the word...
Don’t Tell Me the Church is True; I’ve Heard That Line Before
La lune, la lune, some rhyming lines about the moon is what I remember most vividly from watching Gérard Depardieu in Cyrano de Bergerac in high school French class. The story captivated me; the...
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