by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Dec 3, 2017 | Fostering Faith, Living the Liturgical Year
Happy New Year! Advent, the start of the Christian year, is upon us again. Rather than being a season for shopping and celebrating, Advent creates space for us confront the injustice, evil, and brokenness we see around us with the holy expectation of God’s coming....
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Oct 27, 2016 | Fostering Faith, The Bible
I hate it when well-meaning people tell me that God has a plan for my life. Why do I hate it, you might ask? Because it is exactly what I’m afraid of… The idea that God has a plan for a person’s life is a notion that ought to strike fear into the heart of any sensible...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Feb 6, 2014 | Fostering Faith
I have a confession to make: I am deeply afraid of the chaos that lingers at our doorstep, the chaos that rips into our mundane lives, forever marking a particular moment. It is the moment of the cancer diagnosis, the car accident, the death of an infant. The moment...
by Dr. Jessica Ann Hughes | Nov 4, 2011 | Raising Christian Kids
Helicopter Parenting. Free-Range Parenting. Attachment Parenting. Natural Parenting. Feminist Parenting. I could list may more but the point in each is the same: each offers a way, a method for producing the perfect child…and if not the perfect child, at...
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