by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | LEARNING
This interactive session focuses
on the educational dimensions of preparing youth and adults for baptism and confirmation: our aims and understandings, a variety of approaches, mentors and companions, plus a range of print and multimedia resources including a preview...
by admin | Mar 21, 2022 | Children, RESOURCES
“A very simple definition of children’s spirituality might be God’s ways of being with children and children’s ways of being with God.” Rebecca Nye’s book Children’s Spirituality (London: Church House Publishing, 2009) is a brief but excellent introduction. She begins...
by admin | Mar 20, 2022 | RESEARCH
In 2011-2012 the Uniting Church conducted a national review of the ministry of lay preacher, surveying lay worship leaders and preachers, ministers, church councils and presbyteries. The research was undertaken on behalf of the Working Group on Lay Specified...
by admin | Mar 19, 2022 | RESEARCH, Youth
For Christians, baptism not only signifies the gift of the Spirit, it is also our initiation into ministry in the name of Christ. I’ve been interested in the relationship between Christian formation/education and the sacraments since the mid-1990s when I began...
by admin | Mar 19, 2022 | Leadership, RESOURCES
Here is a set of discussion cards about leadership as improvisation. In my doctoral research I made a distinction between improvisation and innovation as follows: According to Sharon Parks, adaptive leadership occurs through experimentation and improvisation....
