Everyone Wants A Revolution. No One Wants To Do The Dishes

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Back in high school I had this great, old hippie Literature teacher.  With eyes half-mast, and in low tones, he was always speaking these sagely sayings. Fortunately, his deep thought of the day was never full of eastern-spirituality abstractions, but instead grounded in the mundaneness of real life.

Maybe it’s due to my own temperament, maybe it was just simple wisdom, but I’ll always remember a point he made about observing everyday-ness of life in our writing exercises. Sure, there are occasional mountain top experiences, he said, but most of life was lived getting out of bed, eating a bowl of cereal and going to class, or punching a time clock, and there was somehow hidden beauty in the ordinary. Not exactly the stuff of grab-the-bull-by-the-horns-and-go-out-and-change-the-world-type pep talks. But even at 17, I knew he was on to something. A recent blog from Tish Harrison Warren reminds me of that high school teacher’s wisdom.

This will all be repeat info for listeners of the White Horse Inn, but Harrison Warren’s blog is so full of everyday spiritual wisdom, I couldn’t not share it again. She spent years as a disciple of Shane Claiborne styled radical Christianity, went on missions to impoverished areas, lived in underprivileged neighborhoods, gave away most her worldly possessions and walked barefoot in solidarity to the “least of these”. Then came marriage, domesticity, and home life with two little ones: 

   

Now, I’m a thirty-something with two kids living a more or less ordinary life. And what I’m slowly realizing is that, for me, being in the house all day with a baby and a two-year-old is a lot more scary and a lot harder than being in a war-torn African village. What I need courage for is the ordinary, the daily every-dayness of life. Caring for a homeless kid is a lot more thrilling to me than listening well to the people in my home. Giving away clothes and seeking out edgy Christian communities requires less of me than being kind to my husband on an average Wednesday morning or calling my mother back when I don’t feel like it. 

…But I’ve come to the point where I’m not sure anymore just what God counts as radical. And I suspect that for me, getting up and doing the dishes when I’m short on sleep and patience is far more costly and necessitates more of a revolution in my heart than some of the more outwardly risky ways I’ve lived in the past. And so this is what I need now: the courage to face an ordinary day — an afternoon with a colicky baby where I’m probably going to snap at my two-year old and get annoyed with my noisy neighbor — without despair, the bravery it takes to believe that a small life is still a meaningful life, and the grace to know that even when I’ve done nothing that is powerful or bold or even interesting that the Lord notices me and is fond of me and that that is enough. 

For those feeling stuck in the mundane, and worn out by all the law-laden radical Christian discipleship books so popular in evangelical circles today, Harrison Warren’s blog is a good reminder to us all. Whether you’re faithfully clocking in day in and day out, or changing diapers or something in-between, there is simple, profound spiritual meaning in whatever your mundane looks like.

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Another SITE Ends: Self-Restrained Aggression, Praise vs. Criticism, Cheesus Strikes Again, Galli on Substitution, DFW on Addiction and Self-Help, 3eanuts, Richard Ashcroft

THE NEW SITE: On Monday we will be launching our new website, www.mbird.com, which will be an integration and significant upgrade of everything we've been doing and have done thus far. We could not be more excited!! Hopefully there'll be very little that needs to be done on your end, i.e. this site/blog will redirect to that one, including all links, and everything that's here will be there as well. Of course, it means we'll be moving over the weekend, so there may be a few hours here and there where everything is down. Commenting will be turned off tonight at midnight (and back on Monday morning). Please bear with any broken links while we make the switch. For those of you who subscribe via a feed, check back to this address on Monday if your reader doesn't show our latest entries then.

This is a super exciting development and probably a long overdue one as well. We've loved this little blogspot, it's certainly treated us well, but I'm sure you'll agree that it's time to "up our game." See over there! Now, on to my final blogger entry... sniff sniff:

1. A Scientific American podcast/article brings to light an interesting study on the correlation between self-control and aggression, which ties in to JDK's conference talk about the thin line between threat and promise (recording coming Monday!), ht JD:

Past studies have shown that exerting self-control may increase irritability and anger. But the new research found that the increased aggression brought on by self-restraint has a much broader effect. The researchers studied different types of self-control and the subjects' subsequent behavior. For instance, participants who carefully controlled their spending of a gift certificate were more interested in looking at angry faces than fearful ones.

Dieters preferred public service ads that were framed in threats, such as "if funds are not increased for police training, more criminals will escape prison." Subjects who picked an apple over chocolate were more irritated by ads that used words like "you ought to" or "need to,” which sound controlling. They were also more likely to choose to watch a movie with a theme of hostility over other options.

2. Also on the social science tip, an absolutely fascinating/vindicating entry on the Harvard Business Review blog, "Why Does Criticism Seem More Effective Than Praise?" - emphasis on the "seem" - which draws the connection between the "regression to the mean" and our genuinely mistaken conclusions about criticism, ht NW.

3. Conference speaker Mark Galli drops yet another bomb over at Christianity Today with his thoroughly sympathetic recent column "The Problem with Christus Victor," (a fitting rejoinder to his excellent conference talks on chaos and control - did I mention they'll be up on Monday?!), rightly and pastorally guarding against the tendency to reject substitution as the model for atonement. Bravo!

4. A top-to-bottom fantastic article by Maria Bustillos on The Awl which takes David Foster Wallace's private papers, which were just donated to the Ransom Center at the University of Texas (clear eyes full hearts), as a jumping off point to discuss his relationship to AA and depression and his own talent, among other subjects. Read the whole thing:

Much of Wallace's work has to do with cutting himself back down to size, and in a larger sense, with the idea that cutting oneself back down to size is a good one, for anyone... The love his admirers bear this author has a peculiarly intimate and personal character. This is because Wallace gave voice to the inner workings of ordinary human beings in a manner so winning and so truthful and forgiving as to make him seem a friend.

The article includes a priceless quote, apparently from Wallace himself, talking about his own experience in recovery:

Six months in Granada House helped me immeasurably. I still wince at some of the hyperbole and melodrama that are used in recovery-speak, but the fact of the matter is that my experience at Granada House helped me, starting with the fact that the staff admitted me despite the obnoxious condescension with which I spoke of them, the House, and the l2-Step programs of recovery they tried to enable. They were patient, but they were not pushovers...


People at Granada House listened to me for hours, and did so with neither the clinical disinterest of doctors nor the hand-wringing credulity of relatives. They listened because, in the last analysis, they really understood me: they had been on the fence of both wanting to get sober and not, of loving the very thing that was killing you, of being able to imagine life neither with drugs and alcohol nor without them. They also recognized bullshit, and manipulation, and meaningless intellectualization as a way of evading terrible truths—and on many days the most helpful thing they did was to laugh at me and make fun of my dodges (which were, I realize now, pathetically easy for a fellow addict to spot), and to advise me just not to use chemicals today because tomorrow might very well look different.

5. Thanks to some detective work by the great Caleb Maskell, we've unearthed an interview with Verve singer Richard Ashcroft from 2000 in which he makes his religious convictions explicit:

" I can't pin myself on any fixed religion, really. I'm just one of those sad, early-century people who just drifts around and picks up a bit of this and a bit of that. Cuz we are a scanning culture. We are turning over local drug culture and we suck in as much as we can in that given time that we are given, you know. So really, I don't know. It's a celebration of Jesus Christ. But whether that means I'm with the whole [malarky] that happened after he died, or left us, who knows... But I'm intrigued by all that, by religions, I'm intrigued by Jesus Christ. It's all fascinating.

This blogger maintains that pretty much all of Ashcroft's solo work is criminally underrated, both musically and, yes, as a laudable example of spirituality done right in rock (he very well may be the rightful heir to Mr. Dark Horse himself). Instead, it's overshadowed by haters who wish he'd record Storms in Heaven over and over again. Sigh...

6. In TV, have you been watching Mildred Pierce on HBO? Not personally being much of a Todd Haynes or Kate Winslet fan, I've been pleasantly surprised by how superb it is. A harrowing study in mother-daughter dynamics, not to mention the self-seeking underbelly of the American/Hollywood dream, with some stunning setpieces. Think Chinatown by way of Betty Friedan and The Omen. And don't forget, Friday Night Lights: The Fifth Season came out this week on DVD, a full three weeks ahead of its debut on NBC.

7. Conference follow-up: Beyond the recordings, if you enjoyed the delicious food, we invite you to "tip" our chef Edward Crouse by backing his very cool new Kickstarter project "Between Folks and Forks". If it takes off, who knows - he might forgo culinary school abroad and serve us again next year...

8. Finally, in "humor", the inspired 3eanuts showcases the bleak worldview underpinning Schultz's classic strip. Or, as the force behind the site puts it: Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing joke at the characters' expense. With the last panel omitted, despair pervades all. Ht WV:

P.S. Don't miss FailBlog's "Bible Study Fail." Bye Bye!

PZ's Podcast: Bishop Bell's Play

EPISODE 42
 

A fascinating play exists about Bishop Bell. Well, actually, the play is more about Winston Churchill. But in this play, entitled "Soldiers" and first performed in Germany in 1967, Act Three ("The Garden") stages a confrontation between Churchill and George Bell on the ethics of 'carpet bombing'. Although such a meeting never took place, "Soldiers" carries the emotional truth of the Bishop's costly public stance.

"Soldiers" was written by Rolf Hochhuth, who also wrote the controversial play "The Deputy", which was made into a movie, Amen (2003), by Costa-Gavras. The writer studied Bell's speech and letters well, and his life. The play is hard on us who have been taught differently to see the P.M. portrayed on stage as an exponent of Power Politics, and of unscrupulousness in the name of a great cause. Not only is Churchill seen as the power behind the murder from the air of countless non-combatants, mostly young mothers and their small children, and seniors; but it is also claimed that he engineered the assassination of the Polish Prime Minister, General Sikorsky. You could skip most of that, and just read act three.

Toward the end of the play, Bishop Bell is 'bested' by Churchill and ushered out of the Great Man's presence. Here is the playwright's stage direction at that point:

"BELL turns away, he is forced to, overcome by despair, and the trembling in his voice. ... -- his voice fades like that of mankind in the tumult of the massacre of history....

CHURCHILL, alone, sunk in thought, gives himself up, unobserved, to the impression BELL has made on him."

The play's last words concerning Bishop Bell are these:

CHIEF OF STAFF: Well -- did the P.M.

        silence the old demagogue?

SECRETARY (sighs, smiles) :

       If he ever got to be Archbishop of Canterbury ... !

CHIEF OF STAFF: I expect that will be taken care of.

P.S. The first English-language production of "Soldiers", which was in Toronto, was well cast:

Winston Churchill was played by John Colicos, whom we know as 'Baltar' from the original Battlestar Galactica. George Bell was played by Chris Wiggins, whom we know as 'Jack Marshak' in Friday the 13th: The Series. How did they know?

Listen here.

Ayn Rand Killed My Father

Fascinating little testimonial on Salon entitled "How Ayn Rand Ruined My Childhood", which doubles as a startling treatise on the cruelty of the Law. Say what you will about the political commitments of objectivism (ironically, most libertarians I've met are actually coming from a place of faith rather than reason), the relational ramifications appear to be pretty horrific: what happens when confession and repentance are, um, divorced, and honesty crosses the border into self-satisfaction. Is this merely an inflated athropology in the clothing of a deflated one? Or, in this scheme, if God is an objectivist, does that make Jesus a subjectivist? Either way, count me out:

My parents split up when I was 4. My father, a lawyer, wrote the divorce papers himself and included one specific rule: My mother was forbidden to raise my brother and me religiously. She agreed, dissolving Sunday church and Bible study with one swift signature. Mom didn't mind; she was agnostic and knew we didn't need religion to be good people. But a disdain for faith wasn't the only reason he wrote God out of my childhood. There was simply no room in our household for both Jesus Christ and my father's one true love: Ayn Rand.

[Rand] is a Russian-born American novelist who championed her self-taught philosophy of objectivism through her many works of fiction. Conservatives are known to praise her for her support of laissez-faire economics and meritocracy. Liberals tend to criticize her for being too simplistic. I know her more intimately as the woman whose philosophy dictates my father's every decision.

What is objectivism? If you'd asked me that question as a child, I could have trotted to the foyer of my father's home and referenced a framed quote by Rand that hung there like a cross. It read: "My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." As a little kid I interpreted this to mean: Love yourself. Nowadays, Rand's bit is best summed up by the rapper Drake, who sang: "Imma do me."

I don't know exactly why [my father] sparked to Rand. He claimed the philosophy appealed to him because it's based solely on logic. It also conveniently quenched his lawyer's thirst to always be right. It's not uncommon for people to seek out belief systems, whether political or spiritual, that make them feel good about how they already live their lives. Ultimately, I suspect Dad was drawn to objectivism because, unlike so many altruistic faiths, it made him feel good about being selfish.

Needless to say, Dad's newfound obsession with the individual didn't pan out so well with the woman he married. He was always controlling, but he became even more so. In the end, my mother moved out, but objectivism stayed.
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One time, at dinner, I complained that my brother was hogging all the food. "He's being selfish!" I whined to my father.

"Being selfish is a good thing," he said. "To be selfless is to deny one's self. To be selfish is to embrace the self, and accept your wants and needs."

It was my dad's classic response -- a grandiose philosophical answer to a simple real-world problem. But who cared about logic? All I wanted was another serving of mashed potatoes.
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From what I understood of his favorite capitalist champion, any form of altruism was evil. But how could that kind of blanket self-interest extend to his own children, the people he was legally and morally bound to take care of? What was I supposed to do, fend for myself?

The answer to my question came on an autumn weekend during my sophomore year in high school. I was hosting a Harry Potter-themed float party in our driveway, a normal ritual to prepare decorations for my high school quad the week of homecoming. As I was painting a cardboard owl, my father asked me to come inside the house. He and his new wife sat me down at the dinner table with grave faces.
"We were wondering if you would petition to be emancipated," he said in his lawyer voice.

"What does that mean?" I asked, picking at the mauve paint on my hands. I later discovered that for most kids, declaring emancipation is an extreme measure -- something you do if your parents are crack addicts or deadbeats.

"You would need to become financially independent," he said. "You could work for me at my law firm and pay rent to live here." This was my moment of truth as an objectivist. If I believed in the glory of the individual, I would've signed the petition papers then and there. But as much as Rand's novels had taught me to believe in meritocracy, they had not prepared me to go it alone financially and emotionally. I began to cry and refused.

Hardcore objectivists often criticize liberals for basing decisions on emotion, rather than reason. My father saw our family politics no differently. In his mind, it was reasonable to ask that I emancipate myself and work for a living. To me, it felt like he was asking me to sacrifice my childhood so he didn't have to pay child support. To me, it felt like abandonment.

"Lonnie Loosie" on the Bound Will

An article that appeared in Monday's New York Times discussed something absolutely fascinating to me. I had no idea of the problems that the New York City cigarette tax has created for so many New York residents.

According to the article, an average pack of smokes now costs $12.50 in Midtown Manhattan, a price that is outrageous. Even with the salary premiums that New Yorkers enjoy when compared with other parts of the country, such a high price is going to price people out of the habit...or should price people out. But instead, it simply turns them to illegal means. And so a brisk little cottage industry of selling "loosies", or loose cigarettes (one for 75 cents or two for a dollar), has sprung up around the city.

Of course, there's a problem with this: the "man" wants his taxes. So, naturally, every untaxed tobacco sale is a misdemeanor offense for both the seller and the purchaser. And many people thus find themselves in an untenable position: while they are addicted to the cigarettes, they can't afford them; and so their choice is to either cut other vital needs from already drum-tight budgets or break the law in order to get one more fix.

The purveyor of loose cigarettes who was interviewed for this article, a guy who uses the moniker "Lonnie Loosie", has observed this phenomenon, and gave what I think is a money quote on the bound will:

In his time, [Lonnie Loosie] has learned a lot about smokers' habits. He sometimes hears from customers who explain to him they are quitting as they buy two final loosies.

"A lot of them believe they are quitting," he said, "but they come back every day."

The Internet Never Forgets, or The Impossibility of Digital Absolution

A follow-up to a post we did a little while ago about the indelibility of the Internet, via an article published this past weekend in the Times "Erasing the Digital Past." This is fertile ground in a number of ways. When I worked as a youth minister, one of our most effectively incriminating illustrations for sin was that of a DVD of one's life, subtitled with one's thoughts. The kids would always gasp. Well, it would appear that the need for such illustrations may become a thing of the past - with the Internet serving that function in real time. Not only have we been given an ongoing, often inconvenient chronicle of our public and private lives, we've been given one that effortlessly exposes the fruitlessness of our attempts to manage our condition (the whack-a-mole analogy that Ms. Allison uses below has also been used in countless evangelistic talks). Of course, this is all very good news for those like Good News, as it clearly begs the question, how does one translate Psalm 103:12 for the digital age?  "As far as DOS is from Java, so far has he removed our search results from us"? Wakka wakka wakka:

At first, some tried manipulating the Web results on their own, by doing things like manually deleting photos from Flickr, revising Facebook pages and asking bloggers to remove offending posts. But like a metastasized cancer, the incriminating data had embedded itself into the nether reaches of cyberspace, etched into archives, algorithms and a web of hyperlinks. 

After failing to rid the negative sites on their own, most turned to a new breed of Web specialists known as online reputation managers, who offer to expunge negative posts, bury unfavorable search results and monitor a client’s virtual image.

Reputation.com... is among a growing corps of online reputation managers that promise to make clients look better online. In an age when a person’s reputation is increasingly defined by Google, Facebook and Twitter, these services offer what is essentially an online makeover, improving how someone appears on the Internet, usually by spotlighting flattering features and concealing negative ones.

“The Internet has become the go-to resources to destroy someone’s life online, which in turn means their offline life gets turned upside, too,” said Michael Fertik, the chief executive of Reputation.com, which is in Redwood City, Calif., and is among the largest in this field. “We’ve reached a point where the Internet has become so complicated, vast and fast-paced, that people can’t control it by themselves anymore. They now need an army of technologists to back them up online.”
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Social networks, online comments and oversharing online have created a threat to everyone’s reputation and privacy,” said Mr. Fertik of Reputation.com. “Now people are trying to figure out how to put that toothpaste back in the bottle.” ONCE something is online, it can be very difficult, if not impossible, to delete. So tweaking one’s online reputation usually boils down to gaming the search engines. Image-conscious people with an understanding of the Web’s architecture can try doing it themselves, by populating the Web with favorable content... But these tactics have their limits, especially when the Web sites in question are popular and optimized for search engines.

One such site would be Gawker, the New York media blog, which had been known to pluck characters out of relative obscurity and turn them into villains. Starting in 2009, Gawker published a series of snarky items about Julia Allison, a former dating columnist for Time Out New York magazine and a social media expert. Readers were soon acquainted with her videos of her publicly arguing with a boyfriend at the time, personal e-mails sent to Gawker editors and photos of Ms. Allison in lingerie which were posted online.

Ms. Allison tried tinkering with the search result herself, but became so fed up that she once announced that she was “quitting” the Internet. “It’s more like whack-a-mole than anything else,” said Ms. Allison, who has been in talks with Reputation.com to work or online presence. “Hit one, and another pops up. I have spent hours and hours attempting to solve the nearly impossible problem of a maligned online reputation.” 

“The hardest thing is when you have a very unique name,” added Don Sorenson, the founder of Big Blue Robot, an online reputation management company in Orem, Utah, that works with corporations. “If you have a last name like Smith or Brown, you’re going to be better off, but if you have a unique name you will definitely have your work cut out for you.”

At that point, some people have been known to legally change their name.

It hasn’t become that bad for Ms. Allison. She compares the scar to her online reputation to a large tattoo: “Technically, it’s possible to remove it, but it’s painful and expensive. Plus, there’s no guarantee that you’ll ever remove it 100 percent.” The entire experience has made her more cautious about what she shares. “I swore too much and there are a few lingerie photos I wish were private now, but they are the relatively average mistakes of youth,” she said. “Unfortunately, they are now mistakes that will follow me in perpetuity.”

Wendell Berry

I know that I have life
only insofar as I have love.

I have no love
except it come from Thee.

Help me, please, to carry
this candle against the wind.
- Wendell Berry

2011 NYC Conference Book Table

Recordings will all be available on Monday (on the new site!). Until then, here's this year's book table, with a couple of embarrassing omissions rectified. Every year it's a little different, depending on speaker and theme, but overall, it's safe to say that it doubles as something of a "Mockingbird Reading List." Enjoy:

NON-FICTION

Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book (little version)
Bayer, Oswald - Justification and Sanctification
Brewer, Todd & Zahl, David - The Gospel According to Pixar
Brooks, David - The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Capon, Robert Farrar - Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus
Ebeling, Gerhard - Luther: An Introduction to His Thought
Elert, Werner - Law and Gospel
Forde, Gerhard - A More Radical Gospel
Forde, Gerhard - On Being a Theologian of the Cross
Galli, Mark - Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God
Galli, Mark - Great and Terrible Love, A: A Spiritual Journey into the Attributes of God
Greene-McCreight, Kathryn - Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness
Hawkins, David - The Useful Sinner
High Street Hymns - The High Street Hymnal
Holcomb, Justin - Christian Theologies of Scripture: A Comparative Introduction
Holcomb, Justin and Lindsey - Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault
Holl, Karl - What Did Luther Understand By Religion?
Jefferson, Margo - On Michael Jackson
Lake, Frank - Clinical Theology, a Theological And Psychiatric Basis to Clinical Pastoral Care
Lewis, C.S. - A Grief Observed
Lipsky, David - Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Lloyd-Jones, Sally - The Jesus Storybook Bible
Long, Anne - Listening
Luther, Martin - The Bondage of the Will
Martin, Joseph - No Bag for the Journey
Martyn, Dorothy - Beyond Deserving: Children, Parents, and Responsibility Revisited
Mattes, Mark - The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology
Norris, Sean - Judgment & Love
Norris, Sean - Two Words: Teaser
O'Connor, Flannery - Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Paulson, Steven - Luther for Armchair Theologians
Pless, John - Handling The Word Of Truth: Law And Gospel In The Church Today
Rosenbladt, Rod - Christ Alone
Senkbeil, Harold - Dying to Live: The Power of Forgiveness
Spencer, Michael - Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality
Walker, Paul - Sermons From The Advent
Walther, C.F. - God's No and God's Yes
Zahl, David - Grace in Addiction: What The Church Can Learn from Alcoholics Anonymous
Zahl, Paul - The Collects of Thomas Cranmer
Zahl, Paul - Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life
Zahl, Paul - Who Will Deliver Us?

FICTION AND POETRY

Auden, W.H. - Collected Poems
Cozzens, James Gould - By Love Possessed
Eliot, T.S. - Confidential Clerk
Eliot, T.S. - The Elder Statesman
Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
Lewis, C.S. - The Great Divorce
O'Connor, Flannery - The Complete Stories
Robinson, Marilynne - Gilead
Salinger, J.D. - Franny and Zooey
Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings
Wilde, Oscar - The Picture of Dorian Gray

MUSIC AND DVDS
High Street Hymns - High Street Hymns
High Street Hymns - Love Shall Be Our Token
The Magills - And The Kings County Sound
Zahl, Paul - New Persuasive Words DVD

OTHER
Feast: A Quiet Time Book and/or Youth Small Group Devotional and/or Sweet Compilation of People's Stories & Scripture (email Liz Edrington at liz@christchurchcville.org to order copies)
Grace in the Parables of Jesus Sunday School Curriculum, Grades 1-5 (click to download) 
Side-By-Side Ministry to Single Mothers Resource Kit (email Andrea Zimmerman at sbs@ststephenschurch.net to order)

PLUS...IF YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING HALLOWEEN WEEKEND: