Mary Hawes, CGMC

November 2012

*Hide and Seek

*Raising the questions

*The Child in the Church

*The Bible and Children

*Children and Holy Communion

*Unfinished Business

*Jesus and the Children

*Children in the Way

*All God’s Children?

*Through the Eyes of a Child

*Hidden in Scripture

*Biblical perspectives:Marcia Bunge

*Gifts of God and sources of joy

*Sinful creatures and moral agents

*Developing beings who need instruction and guidance

*Fully human and made in the image of God

*Models of faith and sources of revelation

*Orphans, neighbours and strangers in need of justice and compassion

*Child Theology Movement

*Matthew 18:1-14

*The child in the midst

*Children as signs of the Kingdom

*Hide and seek in theology

*Hide and seek in theology

*Bonnie Miller-McLemore* Integrating theology, psychology and feminism

*Joyce Ann Mercer*Exploring disconnects between what the Church

says and what the Church does

*David Jensen*Grace and vulnerability

*Kirstin Herzog*Global perspectives

*Spiritual development

*James Fowler

*John Westerhoff

*David Hay & Rebecca Nye

*Rebecca Nye

*Brendan Hyde

*David Csinos

*Seeking space to grow

*Space

*Process

*Imagination

*Relationship

*Intimacy

*Trust

*Seeking new models

*Offering the Gospel to Children

*Gretchen Wolff-Pritchard

*Godly Play

*Jerome Berryman

*Messy Church

*Lucy Moore

*Story

*Ivy Beckwith

*Emerging trends

*Resourcing households of faith

*It takes a village

*Experience

*With, by and among

*Process not product

*Respecting and valuing

*Faith as a way of life

*The default setting

*Doing what we’ve always done

*Focussing on ‘how’ rather than ‘why’

*Reactive rather than proactive

*Information rather than formation

*Occupying or entertaining

*Hidden ways?

*Leaders who think deeply about theology, children, church and praxis

*Nurture for life, action and participation

*Learning from and learning with

*Full inclusion

*Brian McLaren, May 2012

We are inducting our children into a form of Christianity that no longer works for increasing numbers of adults.

We need to start talking about whole-life spiritual formation in a new kind of Christian life.

*Hide and Seek?

Don’t teach good news -

become good news