The author shows in this book how a parish can incorporate its children into full participation with the worshiping community. Tapping their creativity to design a spectacular array of materials for worship -- a storyteller's cloak, prayer cards, confessions stones, rap sermons, sculpture, and painting -- liturgy comes intensely alive for parishioners of all ages. As Fairless demonstrates, the full participation of children in corporate worship, while not a simple matter, is deeply rewarding. An introduction by Louis Weil, professor at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, provides the theological rationale for the inclusion of all baptized members in the worship life of the community.

Children at Worship: Congregations in Bloom

Religion & Spirituality

Fairless, Caroline S.

Christian Books & Bibles

Church Publishing

Caroline Fairless writes: Where are the miracles of a child born not in a stable, but maybe at home, in warm water, with a doula (midwife) and family as witnesses? Or the miracle of a child born in an urban clinic where the people who serve do so out of compassion and empathy and with very little money? Where is the miracle of thunder and lightning and wind and rain? The miracle of a barred owl hunting for his supper, the miracle of a colt being born, of milk coming from a cow? Where is the miracle of simply waking up to a new day? What do we know of the miracle of a child not being shot today?
Bayo Akomolafe writes: This book is a prayer. A meeting between Caroline and those of us recovering from our estranging devotion to disembodiment, and God. She hardly appeals to him to answer questions of his existence; instead, she begs him to let go.This love affair isn’t working. -- Dr. Bayo Akomolafe,Poet, Philosopher, Psychologist, Professor. This brave and important book is timely; in fact, it is URGENT that Caroline Fairless’ message comes to us now. And it is the missing piece for me. Sally Z. Hare Coastal Carolina University Singleton Endowed Professor Emerita and president, still learning, inc.

The God Presumption

History

Prose Press

In Growing Up Girl: Book One, a young Bernadette Aller floats through her life - job to job, lover to lover, place to place. She is an untethered spirit trying to find her way in a world that's not been too kind. Now, as she barrels toward her seventies, she wants to tell her story, not because it's hers alone, but because it's a surprisingly common story. It's a story much of which happens behind doors that display the word unspeakable. Bernadette hires Scully Trippe to ghost write, translating Bernadette's personal experience into the third person, in what might (or might not) be a misguided attempt to extend the story's reach. The time frame is malleable, with the storytelling moving back and forth through several stages of Bernadette's life. In this first book of the Growing Up Girl trilogy, BernadetteWorld is populated with Patience, her housekeeper; Maddie, a former lover and now a ghost; and Lucinda, a time traveler who drops in and out. It's a quirky group. Cover artist is Matt Smith. The image of the five-year-old on the cover is Matt's mother whom he never met. In his own words, "Although I have no memory of her, I treasure the stories of Lynn's strength, stubbornness, and ferocious loyalty. My hope is to bring her from the muted mysterious shadows into the light with love."

Growing Up Girl Book I: Untethered

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Manhattan Book Group

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