By Jeremy Clines To offer stories, week-by-week, to children, as if they are biblical narratives, when what is offered is a smaller amount of biblical material framed within a much longer theological narrative conceals the act of interpretation. The ‘Parables’ … Continue reading
By Cath Kennedy Western Christianity is taught using stories of forced marriage. Religious materials for children have a lifelong effect, orienting cultural ideas of belonging, virtue and family life. So what children learn about the Bible is important. In Godly … Continue reading
By Jeremy Clines There is a strangeness in typecasting the region stretching from the Levant to Mesopotamia as a ‘desert’ when it would more ordinarily would be described as the Fertile Crescent. There is an oddness in embodying much of … Continue reading
Sacred Texts’ Cath Kennedy talked with Clare Williams, the Children and Young People Resources Editor for ROOTS, the ecumenical worship resources publisher. How does a team of only six go about preparing original resources to be used with all age … Continue reading
By Janet Lees I was a School chaplain for 8 years from 2010 to 2018 in a school in Yorkshire. For children aged form 3-18 years, this school was affiliated to one of the smaller Protestant Churches in Britain of … Continue reading
This is the second of two blog posts by Cath Kennedy discussing the portrayal of gender roles in Jerome Berryman’s Complete Guide to Godly Play volumes 2 and 6. For more information about this, please refer to the previous post … Continue reading
This is the first of two blog posts by Cath Kennedy drawn from a 2016 article examining the retelling of the Abraham Cycle in Godly Play. The other will discuss the portrayal of femininity through Sarah and Hagar. Godly Play … Continue reading