Author: lauraalary

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.

I've been working on this project for well over a year now and it is close to being finished. Being asked to take on the task of writing a collection of bible stories for children--especially by the publisher of Ralph Milton's Family Story Bible, which I have used for years--was a real honour. I have… Continue reading Read. Wonder. Listen.

Here is my latest guest post on celebrating Pentecost with children. Thank you to Paraclete Press for the invitation to write for their blog, and to Rebekah McLeod Hutto for her book The Day When God Made Church. Read the post here.

Mira and the Big Story has just been featured on the blog Picture Book Theology by Hanna Brown Shock. Many thanks to Hanna for sharing the book with her readers. Read her post here.

I'm getting ready to lead a workshop on prayer at the National Presbyterian Women's Gathering. We're going to be exploring different practices of prayer (some with words and some without). In this new blog post, I talk a bit about learning to pray with (and from) my children. Read it here.