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TaylorTroutmanFaculty members, students and graduates of  Union Presbyterian Seminary will post short articles here on how to use children and youth books in a variety of settings, as well as  bibliographies on themes of particular interest in the lives of children and youth.  In addition, we will occasionally invite readers to share what they are doing with books in their own contexts – be it church or home or anywhere else!

If you have bibliographies you would like to request, or want more ideas about such things as how to use books in the home, in intergenerational settings, or one on one with a child, please let us know by clicking on the Contact Us tab on the home page and sending a request.

Lesson Plans: Practicing Christianity with Children, Session 5

31 March 2010, 2 Comments
Healing is the focus of this session in the Practicing Christianity with Children series by Kim Lee.  Miss Tizzy and Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, as well as art works, help parents experience how to help their children explore this aspect of Christian life. Download session...

Lesson Plans: Practicing Christianity with Children – Session 4

30 March 2010, Comment are Off
The practice of prayer is central to the life of faith of most Christians.  Using a variety of children’s books, parents begin to explore their understanding of prayer and how to help their children develop their own understanding and practice of prayer. Download session 4 here.

Lesson Plans: Practicing Christianity with Children, Session 3

29 March 2010, Comment are Off
This lesson, third in a series of seven about teaching Christian practices to children, focuses on the psychosocial development of children.   Designed to use with parents, this session (and the one on March 26, 2010) sets the context of children and Christian practices in a...

Lesson Plans: Practicing Christianity with Children, Session 2

26 March 2010, Comment are Off
An understanding of how children think and learn can be helpful in exploring how to engage them in Christian practices such as prayer, worship, Bible study and healing.  Today’s session, the second of seven, focuses on children’s cognitive development, utilizing the...

Lesson Plans: Practicing Christianity with Children

25 March 2010, Comment are Off
For the next several days, we will be posting a series of lessons written for parents of preschool and elementary children at the South Mecklenburg Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC.  These seven sessions reflect  on the Reformed understanding of infant baptism and its...

Evaluating Bible Storybooks

24 March 2010, Comment are Off
Yesterday, guest blogger Virginia Thomas suggested ways to think about choosing and using Bible storybooks with children.  The students in the Using Children’s and Adolescent Literature in the Church class also reflected on this task.  We share with you today an evaluation...

Bible Story Books Can Be Dangerous…..

23 March 2010, Comment are Off
….. if the illustrations limit the story; if the text, in an attempt to simplify, is inaccurate; if children don’t connect the story with the Bible; if too much interpretation is involved; if you stop with Bible story books and children never begin to use a “real”...

Why Use Fantasy Literature in the Church?

16 February 2010, Comment are Off
At first blush, the answer to this question is an easy one.  We should use fantasy literature because our kids love it.  But we need to go deeper than that.  After all, we all love things that aren’t necessarily good for nurturing our faith development…chocolate, for example. ...

Literature Circles in the Church: A Way to Use Books with Children and Adolescents

04 February 2010, Comment are Off
On February 2, the book reviewer mentioned literature circles, particularly response logs, as a way to get into a book.  If literature circles are new to you, Dr. Pamela Mitchell Legg, professor of Christian Education at Union-PSCE in Charlotte, offers the following help....
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