Helping Children Find God - Softcover

Oppenheimer, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081921650X ISBN 13: 9780819216502

Publisher: Morehouse Publishing, 1995

Synopsis

Many of us sense that God is with us in our daily lives but can't put words to the longings we feel, and most churches and synagogues aren't helping us. If we still go to church, we wonder why we are still there and feel we've lost the connections between the faith we practice on Sunday morning and a passionate life in the everyday world. Using Carlo Carretto's definition of spirituality as "a way of thinking, living and sanctifying our lives," Rowthorn shows how we can uncover an authentic faith for our times. To be passionately engaged, all we need to do is take the ordinary acts of our lives and see them differently. We have only to unwrap the gifts we already hold in our hands--the people we meet, the places we go, and the choices we make about work, children, friendships, politics, the arts, and hospitality.

About this title

From the Publisher

"A first-rate book, long overdue." --The Living Church
"This book confirms what I have experienced with my own children and with the children in our church--that to commend the Christian faith to the next generation we must face serious issues and not patronize the children with the curious mix of myth and morality we often give them." --The Rev. Travis Du Priest, The Living Church. "Sunday school teachers, parents and inquirers' classes should read this book. Preachers should read this book. Most of all, if your parish has a task force on evangelism, it absolutely must read this book." --The Good News, Diocese of CT

From the Back Cover

Helen Oppenheimer shows parents, teachers, and clergy ways to encourage children to explore God for themselves and to ask questions in an open and receptive manner. She presents vivid, down to earth discussion of the major areas of our faith: the relationship between belief and behavior; finding God in providence, in grace, in the church, in the Bible in other people, and even in things. She describes specific ways in which we can explore our doubts and still be faithful to God.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081921650X
• ISBN 13: 9780819216502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208