What are today’s youth saying about their faith? How does what they profess compare to our historic creeds? What are they saying about the beliefs of their parents?
Books
Listening to Children on the Spiritual Journey
by Catherine Stonehouse and Scottie May
Enduring Connections
by Janice Haywood
Home Grown
Handbook for Christian Parenting
by Karen DeBoer
Helping Our Children Grow in Faith
by Robert J. Keeley
The Child in the Bible
edited by Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim and Beverly Roberts Gaventa
The resources for faith formation have grown in recent decades, yet the task remains elusive. After all, everything the church does is
formative—and one can never predict how formation will happen.
The opportunity arose for our church to host a group of homeless people. We anticipated that people might threaten to leave if we went through with it. We weren't prepared, however, for the newly baptized Kathryn.
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