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Lacy Finn Borgo

Lacy Finn Borgo

Lacy Finn Borgo

Articles & Essays by Lacy Finn Borgo

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Free to Fail

Featured August 22, 2023
If failing is just a natural part of learning for children, maybe we shouldn’t be so afraid of failure. Lacy Borgo helps us ease into acceptance in her new book, Faith Like a Child.
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Awake and Connected to Our Divine Parent

Published May, 2023 • Featured February 6, 2023
Lacy Borgo invites us to strengthen our connection with God by learning from the movements of young children towards their parents and from the prayer-movements of Daniel in Babylon.
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Essay

Finding God at the End of Our Rope

Published December, 2020 • Featured December 16, 2020
Dallas Willard was right, says Lacy Borgo, ​“God’s address is at the end of our rope.” To stay centered and connected in seasons of struggle, she invites us to pray the Psalms and to play as a ​“stubborn act of hope.”
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Book Excerpt from Spiritual Conversations with Children

The Language of Play and Projection

Published February, 2020 • Featured March 31, 2020
In this excerpt from her book, Spiritual Conversations with Children, Lacy Finn Borgo helps us listen to children and discover play and projection as tools for knowing God and knowing self.
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Essay

Helping Children Notice God

Published July, 2017 • Featured March 8, 2020
Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God’s presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of the with-God life.
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Unlimited Liability: A Movement Towards Generosity

Featured October 27, 2019
Generosity is ​“an act of defiance against our cultural landscape that pulses with messages of scarcity.” Lacy Borgo shares personally and profoundly about the cost of compassion.
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Eastertide: How to Party Like a Christian

Published March, 2011 • Featured April 24, 2019
“Tragedy draws us together, but celebration binds us. There is nothing like a good party to make a people one.” Easter is a seven-week celebration, and Lacy Borgo shares some ideas on how to make the most of it.
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Can Children Hear God?

Published July, 2011 • Featured January 24, 2019
Children, like adults, can learn to distinguish God’s voice from the many others that are clamoring for their attention. Lacy Borgo shares how.
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Article

Submitting is an Act of Choice

Published June, 2013 • Featured February 19, 2018
“Giving up getting our own way” is Lacy Borgo’s child-friendly definition of submission. And for this discipline to be healthy, that ​“giving up” has to be an act of choice.
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Children’s Spirituality: God Makes the First Move

Featured July 25, 2017
We are delighted to welcome Lacy Finn Borgo to explore some ideas about spiritual formation and children, beginning with this excerpt from her doctoral dissertation, Spiritual Direction with Children the Next Natural Step in the Christian Historical Progression of Children’s Spiritual Formation.
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Families as Small Monastic Communities

Featured May 4, 2017
Today parents and church leaders are lamenting the fact that children who have been raised with the foundation and knowledge of our faith are leaving it. [One] solution lies in the advice of St. Jerome and John Chrysostom who wrote about this in the 3rd century.
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Book Excerpt from Good Dirt: Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany (Volume 1)

Making Advent More Meaningful

Published November, 2013 • Featured November 10, 2016
“I hear the laments of parents. I am a lamenting parent. Christmas is too much about the stuff. The stuff begins to clog up the supermarket aisles as early as September.” Lacy Finn Borgo shares ways to make Advent a meaningful season by experiencing the fullness of waiting for the Christ child.
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Life with God for Children

Featured August 11, 2016
In her gentle, always child-affirming way, our Lacy digs a bit into into the hows of her children’s curriculum by sharing the four shaping principles she used when creating it.
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Essay

Safe to Celebrate

Published November, 2013 • Featured November 7, 2013
Lacy Borgo helps us learn why children are always ready to celebrate, and how we can become the same.