Inspire Everyday Acts of Caring with Family Routines
by Sarah Aadland, Director of Doing Good Together's Big-Hearted Families™ Program
Visit Doing Good Together™ – a national nonprofit empowering families to raise caring kids – for more tools to practice kindness and make a difference with your family.
Golden Rule Resources in multiple languages available here.
This activity kit inspired by Let's Do Everything and Nothing inspires kids to think of others—interviewing a family member about their day or coloring a heartfelt sign to give to a friend—and all the joy that love brings to their world.
Doing Good Together's Complete Resource Collection includes books, printouts and activities for families and all ages.
Prayers for Compassion Coloring Pages: Volume 2 includes five beautifully illustrated prayers from Compassion Camp. You can also pick up Volume 1 here.
In this 10-lesson course, Dr. Karen Bluth explores why self-compassion is a resource that people can learn, put in their toolbox, and use whenever they have a challenging day or even a challenging moment. And crucially, she explains how we can help teenage girls develop self-compassion to aid them in the fight against depression.
CONVERGENCE offers numerous leadership and community development webinars on-demand or in a cohort:
Springtide Research Institute is a wealth of research-based information for boundaries and best practices for youth and young adult ministries. The New Normal: 8 Ways to Care for Gen Z in a Post-Pandemic World is but one example.
This five-session series explores how Christians can be part of God’s mission in the world. Each title includes five inspiring daily readings for each week; five easy-to-use discussion guides (with activities, Bible study, and discussion activities); and follow-up action options to apply the study to real-world life.
Sessions include:
Doing Good Together encourages parents to Raise Kindness! How Your Busy Family Can Practice Compassion Every Day.
Welcome to the Compassionate Christianity Podcast! We feature interviews with authors and activists of interest to compassionate Christians.
For example: Book interview with Sophfronia Scott, author of Wild, Beautiful, and Free
Inspire Everyday Acts of Caring with Family Routines
by Sarah Aadland, Director of Doing Good Together's Big-Hearted Families™ Program
Visit Doing Good Together™ – a national nonprofit empowering families to raise caring kids – for more tools to practice kindness and make a difference with your family.
Erin Strobes' mission for her monthly blog, Nourish, is to help you be kinder to yourself and others.
Please read - and save and share - Rev. Dr. Cameron Trimble's In Defense of Empathy - in which she cites Andrew Boyd's Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe and shares quotes from every major world religion revealing that, "Deep empathy is the gateway to knowing God."
See Daily Meditations from Richard Rohr, especially:
An Expanding Love, week of March 14-20, 2021.
Hell, No!, week of Sept. 12-17, 2021.
Compassion, week of September 26-October 1, 2021.
Full-Body Knowing, part of Devotion