by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Jul 17, 2021 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids, Reading Well, The Bible
The scroll of Esther, mid-15th century Iberian Megillah.Digitized by The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel. A couple months ago, my daughter asked me if I’d help her and her friends have a Bible reading group. I was delighted at the suggestion, but tried...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 27, 2021 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids, Reading Well, The Bible
This is a guest post, written by my ten-year-old, Abi. She is a novice writer. This is Abi’s first public piece of writing. She let me make a few suggestions and help with punctuation. Enjoy… Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes — Esther. I’ve always thought she...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 27, 2020 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids
This Sunday (November 29), the first week of Advent, begins a new liturgical year for western Christians. As our family gathers greenery for a wreath, searches for candles in the cupboard, and assembles the prayers we will use each week, I have to admit…I’m ready to...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 20, 2020 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids, The Bible
<< Backstory Pt 1-of-3: Bats & the Bible (how our family started practicing Sabbath)<< Backstory Pt 2-of-3: Remember the Sabbath Day, keep it holy… After nearly five months of practicing Sabbath, as the autumn darkness settled in earlier and more...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 18, 2020 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids, The Bible
<< Backstory Pt 1-of-3: Bats & the Bible (how our family started practicing Sabbath)Backstory Pt 3-of-3: Practicing Sabbath >> Remember the sabbath day, keep it holy… “You guys never do that!” “Yeah, you’re bad because you don’t do what God says!”...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 16, 2020 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year, Raising Christian Kids, The Bible
Backstory Pt 2-of-3: Remember the Sabbath Day, keep it holy… >>Backstory Pt 3-of-3: Practicing Sabbath >> It all started with the bats… About eight weeks into the Covid-19 pandemic that shut down schools and churches, restaurants and parks, my daughter and...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Sep 9, 2020 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
In a recent Q Session, Francis Chan reportedly told listeners… “I hear in a lot of churches they’ve got to meet together again because of our kids. And I’m going, ‘Man, God should wake you up right there. Parents are supposed to be teaching their...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 6, 2017 | Fostering Faith, Raising Christian Kids
Simeon was born on February 2nd, 2014 and died 40 minutes later. My friends were very excited for his birth—they had both lost a parent earlier in the year and were very much looking forward to something to celebrate. Five days before his birth, they received the...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Sep 12, 2016 | Raising Christian Kids
It’s an unavoidable fact of parenting. Whether you are an attachment parent, co-sleeping parent, a free-range parent, a helicopter parent, a traditional parent, a non-ideological parent, you are doing something wrong. Guaranteed. Mothers, in particular, don’t like to...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 1, 2016 | Raising Christian Kids, Reading Well, The Bible, Uncategorized
A few nights ago, I was reading a popular children’s Bible with my kids. We read through the creation story describing how God made the light, separated the waters, formed the land, made the plants, animals, and finally made people. As we read, something troubled me...
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