Section: Children, Youth, and Families

A pastor and mother reflects on how we might recognize youth sports interacting with faith in daily life, instead of being in competition with church.

Communal hiking as a spiritual practice. A God-illustrated version of Visio Divina.

Theological ideas about God are just words until we add the weight of story behind them.

Children sharing the Nativity story should be respected as worship leadership, not treated as entertainment.

How can we shake up “what we know” into something that honors tradition while also breathing life into the communities we serve?

Our worth doesn’t boil down to whether we “deserve” it or whether all of our insecurities and flaws are “acceptable” ones.