This book presents in counterpoint form four views of children’s spiritual formation and four related methods of Christian Education. Each chapter is written by a prominent person(s) representing…
This is a series of linked essays critically reflecting on sacrifice and the Cross in relation to the memorialization of urban violence, particularly the death of children. The essays offer a serie…
This book offers a soundly integrated approach that helps counselors enter the child's world--the world of play--to help them heal. Through play-therapy relationships, counselors, social workers, a…
With a contagious passion for both quantitative research and Christology, and particularly the challenging interrelationship between the two, Len Kageler invites Christian youth ministers around th…
This book shines a revealing light on standard youth ministry practices, and helps the reader to see what needs to change. The book is full of practical ideas that work in real churches, and includ…
This book represent an interlocking set of convictions about young people, about the way the churches should deal with them, and ultimately about youth ministry. A network of coherent convictions a…
Starting with Horace Bushnell's classic 19th-century study, Christian Nurture, Leander Harding brings the discussion up to date with the help of insights from contemporary psychoanalytic thought an…
When are you going to do something about pastoring our people? When he heard that cry, Dr. Melvin Steinbron realized that the centuries-long traditional roles of the clergy and laity - with the cle…
Theology for Ministry is for beginning ministry students, seasoned lay leaders, and anyone in between who wants to learn more about the faith that feeds their call to serve. Six easy-to-read chapte…
The book consists of seventeen chapters arranged in four parts-Nurture and Instruction, Congregational Education, Educational Theory: Goals and Process, and Theological Education. Bender's vision o…