I have this running joke in the young adult group I lead about what we call “Sunday school answers.” Sunday school answers include things like, “Jesus,” “read your Bible,” “go to church,” “pray.” They are the simplistic answers that became rote. Rote and stripped of power. So oversimplified that they couldn’t possibly apply to any…

Cinderella. A well-known fairy tale with many variants and adaptations. Though published in a collection of folklore by the Grimm brothers in 1812, some trace versions of the story back roughly 2,000 years. That’s a free and fun fact for you. Let’s enter the story for a moment, specifically, the well-known 1950 Disney adaptation. It’s…

“It’s hopeless.”  “I have no choice.” “My father is going to kill me.” For a period of a couple weeks, I kept hearing these phrases verbalized by my then 3-year-old. She has quite the imagination. She is also quite the little sponge. These and other phrases did not sound consistent with the values we are…