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Sarah Puryear

The Rev. Sarah Puryear currently stays at home with her two children. Mostly recently she has served as associate rector and priest associate at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Nashville, Tennessee. She grew up in Maine, land of lobsters and L.L. Bean, which she still claims as her home state, but she has lived in the South for so long that Y’all has now become part of her vocabulary. She was raised in charismatic and Baptist churches, and she started on the path to Canterbury after experiencing the liturgies of Holy Week for the first time in 2001. She received her undergraduate degree in English and ancient languages from Wheaton College and her Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School in 2008. She loves reading fiction, traveling, and spending time with her husband, Dan, and their two young children.

A Lesson from Winnie-the-Pooh

Sarah Puryear
November 5, 2020
Bible, Catechesis, Commentary, The Episcopal Church
How to Engage Children with Scripture  By Sarah Puryear At six years old, my son is squarely in a Winnie-the-Pooh phase, which makes my husband and me very glad since we love those stories ourselves. Introd... Read More...

Turn It Up to Eleven: Holy Week Music from Andrew Peterson

Sarah Puryear
April 18, 2019
Music, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Resurrection Letters by Andrew Peterson seeks to draw the listener into the events at the heart of the Christian faith.

Why I Gave Up My Smartphone for Lent  — And Took It Back

Sarah Puryear
June 6, 2018
Commentary, Tech, The Episcopal Church
I realized my smartphone had become my centering point — or rather, my decentering point.

Keep These Words in Your Heart

Sarah Puryear
February 8, 2018
Catechesis, Commentary
My three-year-old son poured water over my hand with a little shell, anointed my hand with some olive oil in the sign of the cross, and handed me a candle — over and over and over again.

Humble King of Kings

Sarah Puryear
November 17, 2017
Catechesis, Commentary
As the king of all, Jesus could have come down from the cross, as the bystanders dared him to do.

Why technology is killing us

Sarah Puryear
September 29, 2017
Books, Reviews & Culture
We love the ease and convenience technology gives us, but we have traded something precious in embracing the next iGadget.

Homegrown VBS: Rescuing our children from the pandas

Sarah Puryear
August 14, 2017
Books, Commentary, Reviews & Culture, The Episcopal Church
Most VBS curricula pander in pathetic ways to pop culture, skimp on thoughtful interpretations of Scripture, and leave kids with throwaway craft projects and a thin version of the Christian faith.

Baptism: A new birth into a living hope

Sarah Puryear
May 22, 2017
Commentary, Liturgy, The Episcopal Church
Baptism's new reality forms the very core of our faith in God and our understanding of ourselves — in baptism we have been united to Christ and given his risen, powerful, incorruptible life.
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