Jia Starr Brown

We Must Let the Tears Fall: Building Empathy and Talking with Children about Living in a Broken World

By Jia Starr Brown February 26, 2026

In true parenting and caregiver fashion, we spend a lot of our hopeful time pointing our young..

Sankofa - Reaching Back to Move Forward

By Jia Starr Brown February 5, 2026

Believe it or not, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. As I looked at my calendar, I thought..

Growing Roots: God's Timing and the New Year

By Jia Starr Brown January 15, 2026

One of my favorite examples of God’s timing is the Winter Jasmine flower. Blooming sunny, yellow..

Growing Roots: Celebration as Resistance

By Jia Starr Brown December 4, 2025

For many of us, it feels wrong to celebrate anything with all that is going on, and going wrong, in..

Growing Roots: Advent, Thanksgiving, and the Not Yet Seen

By Jia Starr Brown November 6, 2025

We live in a society that rewards finish lines - deliverables, story endings, and checked boxes.

Growing Roots: Halloween

By Jia Starr Brown September 25, 2025

Ahhh, welcome to October - the season changing trees, colder breeze (weather!)…and the beginning..

Growing Roots: Feelings in Newness

By Jia Starr Brown August 28, 2025

As we gear up to another year of programing with the ups, downs, chaos, and creativity, we are..

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