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Gender Inclusive Children’s Ministry: Where To Start

January 12, 2022 By Rowan Larson Leave a Comment

There are so many ways that we can invite children into safer spaces when at church or in Christian formation settings. Here are some starting places.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Christian formation, gender, Sunday School, young children

Courage to Ask: Feast of Thomas the Apostle

December 21, 2021 By Genevieve Razim 1 Comment

After a year of online Sunday School, he had lots of questions.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: conversations, Jesus, questions, St. Thomas, Sunday School, The Gospel of John

Expert Guest Speakers for Youth Group: Your Fellow Church Members!

October 21, 2021 By Meredith Baker Leave a Comment

What’s a good way to handle some tough topics in your youth group or Sunday School?

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Christian formation, Sunday School, youth ministry

So… what are you doing for Black History Month?

February 4, 2021 By Miriam McKenney 4 Comments

In the groups I’m in on Facebook, I see questions like, “What’s everyone doing for Lent?” “Should we whisper about Easter?” Before that, it was […]

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Filed Under: Discipleship, Parenting Tagged With: American History, Black History Month, children, churches, clergy, education, Family, formation, history, leaders, Sunday School, teens

Using Minecraft to Teach Kids About Christianity

January 11, 2021 By Elizabeth Brignac 9 Comments

Educators are already aware of Minecraft’s potential in the classroom, to the extent that Minecraft has created Minecraft: Education Edition to accommodate teachers. But Minecraft can also be useful for both parents and Christian educators in teaching children about both liturgy and the Bible.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: ChurchNext, faith formation, Minecraft, Sunday School, technology, tweens

Benchmarks for Christians

July 8, 2019 By Sharon Ely Pearson Leave a Comment

From time to time the Forma Facebook Group has a post from someone (clergy, youth minister, Christian educator) who is asking if anyone has a “rubric” for what children should learn in each year of “Sunday School” (or whatever you call it).

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Children in church, Christian formation, discipleship, resource, Sunday School, young children

Celebrating Adelaide Teague Case and Religious Education

June 19, 2019 By Carrie Willard Leave a Comment

Today, June 19, we remember Adelaide Teague Case, who died seventy-one years ago. “An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church” tells us that Dr. Case was “the first woman to be appointed to full professional rank in an Anglican seminary.” She was a theologian, librarian, professor, and writer, but she lived at a time before women could be ordained in the Episcopal Church.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: children, Christian formation, cloud of witnesses, questions, Sunday School

I’m an Episcopalian, and I homeschool. (Year One: almost complete!)

May 13, 2017 By Heather Sleightholm 28 Comments

This year we began homeschooling – and realized how seamlessly we could integrate faith.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: choir, church, homeschool, Lords Prayer, Nicene Creed, Sunday School

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