Faith Formation: Spiritual Growth/Practices

The Day by Day Deck is a special deck of 32 cards, created for children and their families. It offers a unique way to engage in visual prayer through the practice of Visio Divina, or “seeing with God.” Each card features original textile art by the deck's makers and has questions on the back to help in prayerful imagination. The deck comes with a booklet of instructions and suggestions to help you get started.

MORE THAN “I FORGIVE YOU”: FACILITATING DEVELOPMENTAL FORGIVENESS IN YOUTH MINISTRY

by Stephen Ingram

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How We Think About Forgiveness at Different Ages

Children's understanding of forgiving develops as they grow older. 

BY ROBERT ENRIGHT

How To Get People of All Ages Talking About Faith Practices

These 4 questions can help you start conversations about faith practices with your people - at home, church, work, school, and more.

Get people talking.

Hosted by Faith Formation, Open to Wonder is a podcast that helps us imagine together what faith looks like in our day-to-day lives by exploring all kinds of faith questions: big ones, small ones, weird ones, and hard-to-talk-about-in-church ones.

Here's a wonderful list of Inclusive Versions of the Prayer of Jesus. I don't know who compiled it, but most of the prayers are cited for use!

P.S. I would not use the title, 'The Prayer of Jesus': so far as we know, this was never a prayer Jesus prayed. This is the Prayer Jesus Taught Us, the prayer Jesus instructed his followers to pray.

This New Podcast Season Is a Fun (and Faith-Forming) Summer Listen

Season 2 of Open to Wonder! explores faith practices—the repeated ways of connecting with God that help us become more like Jesus.

Check out some of the big, small, weird, and hard-to-talk-about-in-church questions we asked our guests about faith practices.

Do you yearn for a new vision of Christianity—one with love and justice at the core of its practice? Rev. Jacqui Lewis PhD animates a renewed faith for our times in her podcast Love. Period.

Find Belonging and Belovedess in Life’s “Endings":

Valerie Dodge-Reyna explains how the contemplative mind can help create loving rituals around death and endings.

Spiritual Wholeness

The intersection between queerness and spirituality can often be fraught. These inclusive, accepting, and empowering stories offer a fresh perspective on spirituality that can help us unlock a deeper connection with the divine.