Blog - Rebekah Drumsta

Nat King Cole’s “Smile” is one of those songs that drifts in like a warm memory. You hear it in an old movie or streaming on a playlist while stirring something familiar on the stove, and it wraps around you with a kind of gentle nostalgia. The lyrics encourage you to smile through ache, fear and sorrow - a message meant to soothe, not aggravate. But when you sit with the wor...

This is going to sound opposite of what you’ve likely believed, but in evangelical spaces, children were never centered; the adults were.

Churches built over-the-top indoor playgrounds and elaborate nurseries; they had children’s ministry staff, paid for children’s curriculums, took kids to camp, hosted Bible memory programs like AWANA, held Vacation Bible School weeks ...