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The Spirituality of Parenting

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Your Voices, Your Stories
More and more people in our time are disconnected from religious institutions, at least for part of their lives. Others are religious and find themselves creating a family with a spouse from another tradition or no tradition at all. And the experience of parenting tends to raise spiritual questions anew. We sense that there is a spiritual aspect to our children's natures and wonder how to support and nurture that.

We asked for your stories and the spiritual questions that parenting — or grandparenting — raises. Below are the voices of some of them. You can read more stories here or tell us your own experience.
>Tamarack Song, World Native
Tamarack Song and family
Three Lakes, WI

» listen (mp3, 01:04)
 
Autumn Skeen, Episcopalian
Autumn Skeen and Anton
Tokyo, Japan

» listen (mp3, 02:18)
Rebecca Neiger, Buddhist
Rebecca Neiger
Columbus, OH

» listen (mp3, 00:35)
 
Leslie Ortega, Lutheran
Leslie Ortega and family
St. Paul, MN

» listen (mp3, 01:46)
Stacia Goodman, Non-Christian
Stacia Goodman and family
Minneapolis, MN

» listen (mp3, 01:20)
 
Lynn Harden, Protestant
Lynn Harden
New York, NY

» listen (mp3, 01:51)
 
Sara McGinley, Episcopalian
Sara McGinley and family
Minneapolis, MN

» listen (mp3, 00:57)
Barb McRae, Presbyterian
Barb McRae and family
Ann Arbor, MI

» listen (mp3, 02:53)
 
Eileen Flanagan, Quaker
Eileen Flanagan
Philadelphia, PA

» listen (mp3, 01:38)
   
Christy Davis
Knoxville, TN

» listen (mp3, 00:41)


Natasha DeVoe
Minneapolis, MN

» listen (mp3, 1:01)
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