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So I can be a true teacher and mentor to him and his friends, never trading precious family time to burn the midnight oil at work. Work comes and goes, but kids are only kids for a very limited time.
And to paraphrase some ancient wisdom: “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.”
Rob Howard • The 100x Family-Time Strategy
Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
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a community of friends and neighbors that provide both safety net and spring board—support when things are hard, and celebration when things are especially good. We, in turn, provide those things for them.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
action by personifying acceptance and friendship. It is the pastor’s task, Henry believed, to run at the speed of intimacy—and this was very different from pastors before him.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
The faculty understand their role as not only to empower students with skills but also to open them up to the major struggles and questions of a religious life.
Rabbi Elie Kaunfer • Empowered Judaism: What Independent Minyanim Can Teach Us about Building Vibrant Jewish Communities
Today, the pastor’s education is not to discipline the will but to qualify her for the profession.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
A congregation becomes depressed when its identity continues to rest on its resources instead of its relationships.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
existential crisis. But the school wanted to do better,