For some of us the snow keeps piling up…so what better time to start thinking about summer?Here are a few Vacation Bible School curriculums from …
My colleague, Bronwyn Skov, and I are reprinting this blog post by Sharon Ely Pearson, Christian Formation Specialist at Church Publishing, with the hope that …
My heart aches and my brain seems scrabbled when I learn about a 4 year old boy shooting his 6 year old neighbor. This single …
As you most likely already read, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori called for prayer following the explosions in Boston, MA, and offers the …
In case you haven’t seen it, there’s an article in yesterday’s Washington Post about the White House advisory council of religious leaders calling for new …
So many of our faith communities use the Godly Play curriculum that this upcoming annual Conference, June 19 to 22 at the University of Toronto, …
May is Older Americans Month.Older Americans Month was established under President Kennedy in 1963 – a time when only 17 million living Americans had reached their …
More than one in three Episcopalians is over the age of 65, and another 41% of Episcopalians are between the ages of 45 to 64. …
From time to time I have the honor of welcoming guest bloggers. Today I welcome Sabrina Evans, Director of Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma, …
Older Americans Month is celebrated each May to honor and recognize older adults for their contributions to families, communities, and society. The United States Administration …
The Bishop’s Native Collaborative (BNC), which was designed to reinvigorate native and indigenous initiatives by fostering the formation of clergy to serve native American Episcopal …
The Faith Formation Learning Exchange just published their list of Spring 2013 Resources:
What’s New: Spring 2013 includes the latest research and articles on families, children’s ministry, …
The latest in our month-long video series recognizing Older Americans Month asks the question:
How can I make a difference and advocate for aging in governmental …
I just heard about this training opportunity and thought to pass it along.
The Parish Resource Center of Long Island is sponsoring a 1-hour webinar on Dementia, …
This is part II of the video I posted on Tuesday.
In particular, this video asks the questions:
What are challenges to aging at home?
What is the …
There’s no doubt that all media – including movies – have the ability to impact young minds. Through film, every director and screenwriter has particular …
In this video, the Rev. Canon Petero Sabune, Former Chaplain, Sing Sing Prison reflects on the challenges of aging in the prison system as well …
The second video in our Older Americans Month video series focuses on the Theology of Aging, asking the questions:
When God created humans God proclaimed that …
What is the reality of HIV and aging? How are assisted living facilities chugging? What does ministry to, with and by the aging look like?
Consider …
Just a quick post to let you know the Children’s Curriculum Overview is now available from Church Publishing.
Also from Church Publishing, you can find:
VBS Overview
How …
I want to encourage you to “Save the Date” for the upcoming ecumenical web forum, Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America, announced yesterday …
Continuing in our series honoring Older Americans Month, this video, which is part 1 in a 2-part series, poses the following questions:
How do we live …
This first video in a two-part series asks the question:
Aging is changing but are your perceptions of aging changing, as well?
Let me know what you …
In this second of a two-part series on the intergenerational nature of Christianity, this video asks the questions:
How have we been transformed by our work?
What …
