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Books for Raising Kids on Spiritual Earth
Whether their children are tots, teens, or young adults, parents are always on duty—and often on edge. Religion and spirituality publishing houses have help on the way, with new and forthcoming books aimed at bolstering parents’ faith in God—and in themselves—as they deal with changes and obstacles they didn’t notice coming.
Acknowledging the challenges that come with parenting, Webster Younce, v-p and publisher for Zondervan Books, says, “Parents are seeking resources to calm anxiety around their children’s future.” He points to a necessitate for titles that stimulate parents “to lead with their faith first.”
Social media is bringing an onslaught of challenges to parents, according to Brad Lyons, president and publisher at Chalice Press. “Our kids are inundated more than ever with conflicting messages about how to craft good decisions,” he says, pointing to the unreliable and sometimes dangerous grasp that every viewpoint and conflict can have online, making social media “an unseen but certainly felt force that parents contain never f
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In Parade of 2023 we launched a new podcast series, Courageous Compassion, in partnership with Compassionate Christianity. We feature discussions with authors who are releasing essential spiritual books. You can find our episodes below, as well as on Apple iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Anchor, Breaker, RadioPublic, and other popular podcast directories.
Samples from the Courageous Compassion series:
Book interview with Casey Tygrett, author of The Offering of Restlessness: A Spirituality for Unsettled Seasons
Book interview with Sophfronia Scott, storyteller of Wild, Beautiful, and Free
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LGBTQ Inclusion in the United Methodist Church as Moral Agency
Neighborhood Church congregation on the steps of the church sanctuary. (Photo obtained with permission from Neighborhood Church.)
What Counts as Activism?: A Case Study in Moral Agency Under Constraint
In 2019, the Joined Methodist Church create itself in the national spotlight at the center of ongoing debates about the full inclusion of LGBTQ people at all levels of society. 1 Conservative and evolving factions of the church are deeply divided over the inclusion of LGBTQ members, and plans for a church split are underway. UMC clergy who support full LGBTQ inclusion into the church are currently in the position of having to live out evolving values within the confines of the UMC’s exclusionary doctrinal positions. These clergy, I argue, are prime examples of moral agents under constraint. For this project, I will highlight two UMC clergy – Reverends Andy and Anjie Woodworth, married pastors of Neighborhood Church in the Candler Park neighborhood of Atlanta, GA – and discuss the various means by which they possess advocated for LGBTQ inclusion over the course of their ministry, and how that advocacy has chang
BBC Adult Resources
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for Adults, July 2023
prepared by Alvin R. Blount
Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities
-Craig Steven Wilder
-paperback $16.99
-Kindle $9.99
-hardcover $22.00
-432 pages
-Bloomsbury Press
-2013
-description: A scholar on race in America, Craig S. Wilder, a professor of American history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and former professor at Williams and Dartmouth colleges, respectively, presents the uncomfortable truths regarding race, slavery, and some of America’s most acknowledged institutions. Schools such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of North Carolina would not exist today without labor, tears, and blood of people of color. Wilder shows how some of these primary academies garnered the sustain of slave owners and slave traders while perpetuating breeding grounds for racist ideology that sustained them.
Wilder, C. S. (2013). Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities. Bloomsbury Press.
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Centu Thursday, March 15, 2023 from 12:00 PM ET until 1:00 PM ET. 60 minutesFreeElizabeth Corrie, Ellen Ott Marshall, Susanna Snyder, Chine McDonald, Anton Flores-Maisonet The Candler Foundry in partnership with Candler's Program in Religious Education will be hosting a book discussion on "Parenting for a Better World: Social Justice Practices for your Family and the Planet." The conversation will be facilitated by our very own Dr. Beth Corrie and she converses with panelists: Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall, Dr. Susanna Synder, Anton Flores-Maisonet, and Chine McDonald. To learn more about the book and purchase it, please go to: https://parentingbetterworldbook.com/ Facilitator: Dr. Beth Corrie - is the Professor in the Practice of Youth Education and Peacebuilding; Director of the Religious Education Program. Dr. Elizabeth Corrie’s instruction draws on commitments to both tranquility with justice and the education of young people, particularly the development of teaching and ministry that empower people for global citizenship. Read More Panelists: Dr. Ellen Ott Marshall - is the&nA Book Discussion on Parenting for a Better World
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