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“We are very much the ‘present’!”
In my post “Needed: A Theology of Children,” my friend Fran mentioned in her comment a cartoon I had shown her: The cartoon comes from ASBO Jesus, and I share it with the artist’s permission. We also use it each … Continue reading
“Needed: A Theology of Children”
At our church, the church, the main parish hall, and parish office are on one level. The nursery and Sunday School classrooms through 12th grade are on the basement level. We have three services each Sunday in our church, and … Continue reading
Posted in Godly Play, Jerome Berryman, The Episcopal Church
Tagged Godly Play, The Episcopal Church
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The Seven Faces of Easter (Part II)
(See Part I here.) I find that the Seven Faces of Easter are the most compelling stories (or set of stories) in our Godly Play “library.” More than any other story, I find the children in the circle (and the … Continue reading
Posted in Godly Play, Godly Play Classroom, Lent, Seasons of the Church Year
Tagged Godly Play, Seven Faces of Easter
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“Follow Me” – Making a New Story (Part 1)
Our team of teachers met on January 6 to discuss the schedules and story selection for the new “semester” – January 8 – May 13, 2012. As we talked, we were anxious to include a story about Jesus calling the … Continue reading
New Godly Play Catalogue!
If you’ve been hiding under a Godly Play log, you might not have heard that Godly Play Resources has a new catalogue! It’s always so much nicer when you can actually see what you’re buying – or dreaming about buying. … Continue reading
Response Time – Setting up the Altar
While reading a Catholic homeschooler’s blog, I was fascinated by her miniature mass kit. I saved up my pennies to buy it, wrote a script to introduce it, and I was met with complete indifference on Sunday morning in our … Continue reading
The Seven Faces of Easter (Part 1)
We’ve been doing Godly Play for about 16 years at St. Philip’s, and in the beginning we tried every which way of acquiring materials. We made many – copying, coloring, and laminating parable items is fairly easy. Cutting felt is … Continue reading
What It Means to Be an Episcopalian
When the good people at our church decided to begin a group they call “Soul-Journers,” they asked me if I would be first of the “wide variety of speakers [who] talk with us about various aspects of what it means … Continue reading
Posted in Godly Play, Godly Play Scripts, Godly Play Story Materials
Tagged church history, Episcopalian, Godly Play
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browniesmoke? The secret is out…
Last summer, with some rainy days and free time on my hands, I created a blog, experimentally. I wrote several terrible blog posts, badly imitating several of my favorite bloggers. And no one read it except for the ones who … Continue reading
Our Godly Play Transitional Shelf
I am a rule follower. When Jerome Berryman explains how to set up a Godly Play classroom, I make careful notes and line everything up and frustrate myself no end that I don’t have matching shelves and a big rectangular … Continue reading