I hope you have a family filled and blessed Easter Weekend (Easter Triduum in Catholic speak). We're going to a spring festival Saturday afternoon and then attending the 8pm Easter Vigil at All Souls in Sanford. I am a sponsor for a coworker going through the RCIA process (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults). They [...]
The full file of Curriculum Development projects are on the Religious Worlds of New York website, but I wanted to highlight some of the my favorite projects done by the last cohort group. I also wrote a blog post highlighting my Curriculum Development project HERE! “If You Can’t Take the Heat”: Jewish and Islamic Dietary [...]
During Jesus’s last week on Earth he went to Jerusalem to teach the message that G-d had instructed him to teach. When Jesus began to teach his message and the number of followers began to multiply and it caused the Jewish officials to become angrier of Jesus' following. So the Jewish officials decided to do [...]
Well it is Sunday night of Spring Break and I feel decently rejuvenated to go back to school for another Quarter. So here's how we stacked up again our Spring Break goals: Packing for our move - CHECK! WE ROCKED THIS Lesson plans for the first week back - CHECK, I could have done more [...]
The Mission at San Juan Capistrano was established in 1776 by St. Junipero Serra; it was the 7th of 9 missions established by the saint and would become part of a chain of 21 California missions to be built. The purpose of these missions were to spread the Catholic faith in the territory called New Spain; [...]
So I am a HUGE Anne Rice fan, the writer of Interview with a Vampire; I have lost count of how many books of hers I've read. I love her writing style and how she sweeps you up into a historical time and place with convincingly real characters. Recently I read one of her non-vampire books, [...]
The cool thing about this Student Series! blog post is that a student interviewed her friend about her everyday religious practice. I feel that this shows how people live out their faith in a high school setting, brining the abstract into the classroom and making it real. JMF Mormonism is derived from Christianity, with a [...]
