Welcoming Children: A Practical Theology of Childhood ..read more

Nadra Nittle in Chapter Two, “The Girl With Too Much Spirit,” of her book bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist ..read more

The Children of Israel: Reading the Bible for the Sake of Our Children ..read more

Nadra Nittle in Chapter Two, “The Girl With Too Much Spirit,” of her book bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist ..read more

Nadra Nittle in Chapter Two, “The Girl With Too Much Spirit,” of her book bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision: Buddhist, Christian, and Feminist ..read more

Suffer the Children: A Theology of Liberation by a Victim of Child Abuse ..read more

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The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theology ..read more

Applying this principle to theological work might manifest as, instead of giving children a huge stack of formidable theological books by expert theologians to begin their theological journey, helping children to gain biblical and theological proficiency. Meaning, start by just getting children familiar with different parts of the Bible (remembering that not all parts of the Bible are child-friendly some parts should only be read with the lens of child protection ), different ways that people can read the same passages, and some of the big questions that theology asks (like, “Why do pain and s ..read more

Take the topic of death as an example. If you want to educate a child about the facts of death , you should not start the conversation by telling the child, “Everyone that you love will die one day.” That statement true. It is true that everyone will die one day. But that is probably not the best way to start the conversation with a child. Starting the conversation that way is likely going to just terrify and traumatize the child. So instead of introducing the topic in a way that makes the child fearful, you would scaffold. Progressively, over whatever amount of time it takes to help the child ..read more