Singing Along the Journey

Will Our Children Have Faith

Just what do we mean by…faith

Lately, I have had a lot of time and motivation to think about the meaning of the word "faith"...in addition to my studies last year about faith development and the paper I'm trying to gear up to write,  I had a chance to facilitate our summer Sunday school class, leading them through a discussion of that chapter in Marcus Borg's Speaking Christian, not to mention other more personal reasons to continue my reflections.  It seems to be the word of the moment . So, in preparation for my upcoming paper on the topic of faith development and adult learning styles, I pulled out some of the things I wrote last…
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Something I noticed…

Last night we had our first meeting of a class I have been anticipating for months -- The Teaching Church.  It is, for me, the beginning of my real education.   It was the work that I have begun to do as a teacher and the awareness of my call to teaching that has been slowly developing in me for the past couple of years that brought me to the doors of this seminary, and it was the one chance meeting with the particular educator who teaches this class that made VTS my school of choice over Andover Newton. And last night did not disappoint -- there is nothing more invigorating than…
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Just what do we mean by…faith

Lately, I have had a lot of time and motivation to think about the meaning of the word "faith"...in addition to my studies last year about faith development and the paper I'm trying to gear up to write,  I had a chance to facilitate our summer Sunday school class, leading them through a discussion of that chapter in Marcus Borg's Speaking Christian, not to mention other more personal reasons to continue my reflections.  It seems to be the word of the moment . So, in preparation for my upcoming paper on the topic of faith development and adult learning styles, I pulled out some of the things I wrote last…
Read More

Something I noticed…

Last night we had our first meeting of a class I have been anticipating for months -- The Teaching Church.  It is, for me, the beginning of my real education.   It was the work that I have begun to do as a teacher and the awareness of my call to teaching that has been slowly developing in me for the past couple of years that brought me to the doors of this seminary, and it was the one chance meeting with the particular educator who teaches this class that made VTS my school of choice over Andover Newton. And last night did not disappoint -- there is nothing more invigorating than…
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