Table Training for Deliberative Democracy

Table Training for Deliberative Democracy

During the 1960s, I was blessed to be part of family gatherings around the large Victorian dinner table on my grandparents’ dairy farm, documented by one of my cousins with the latest, greatest Polaroid camera. At the time, I did not realize I was being schooled in...
Galvanizing Our Children for God’s Amazing Grace

Galvanizing Our Children for God’s Amazing Grace

Galvanize—to provide a protective layer or covering Catechize—to systematically instruct in Christian doctrine orally by means of questions and answers For most of 2017, I was up to my eyeballs in all manner of old hardware for our 1920s farmhouse project. I desired...
Training the Troops

Training the Troops

“How many times have I told you…??” “Didn’t we go over this yesterday??” “I can’t believe I’m having to tell you this again!” Uh-oh. We’re stuck on Step 5 again. The pesky one that tends to get our goat when we least want to deal with it…...