Author: lauraalary

My newest blog post for The Hub explores the gifts of darkness, something worth pondering as we approach the Advent Season and prepare to celebrate the coming of the Light. Read it here.

"This book honors a child's ability to be a young theologian..." Sybil MacBeth's books--especially Praying in Color--have shaped and nourished my practice of prayer for many years. So I am particularly grateful to her for including Look! A Child's Guide to Advent and Christmas on her latest blog post. Read it here.

For me, writing is always easier than speaking. When I write I have a chance to think slowly, choose my words carefully, and go back and change them (many times) if necessary. Not so with speaking. So when Matt Brough invited me to be a guest on his podcast, Spirituality for Normal People, I was… Continue reading On Spirituality, Kids, and the Church Year: Podcast Interview with Matt Brough

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"True gratitude is not a discipline you can impose on yourself. It is a joyful and heart-felt response to grace—and it is often through the most minute openings that grace reaches us." Just in time for Thanksgiving (in Canada, anyway), my newest blog post has just been published on The Hub. Read it here. SaveSave

My newest guest post for froogalism.com celebrates the many benefits and joys of global music for children--and the rest of us too. Read it here.

I wrote this article for the most recent issue of Glad Tidings magazine. It chronicles my own fledgling attempts to learn to "pray by hand" using prayer flags. You can read the article here.