Parenting
Should I Raise my Kids in Church?
Our goal should simply be to provide a safe environment for our children to live out their inherent spirituality.
Read MoreParents, It’s Okay if you’re Still a Recovering Evangelical
we carry wounds from a childhood of toxic religiosity that are easily triggered as we relive some of our childhood through our own kids.
Read MoreThe Danger of Certainty in Adolescence
Be wild and weird and wonder if you know what the heck you’re doing, because it’s okay if you don’t.
Read MoreRising from A Fundamentalist Childhood
What I don’t want is for the children to have to exile parts of themselves and having to put themselves back together like I had to, I want them to grow as whole selves, from childhood and beyond.
Read MoreUnfundamentalist Parenting Round-Up
Most of you may know, at the end of February this year, I started a new blog over with Patheos blogging on the subject of Unfundamentalist Parenting. I am keeping my blog here at cindywords, because I still have internet thoughts and opinions that aren’t related to parenting. But the Patheos blog is a great way…
Read MoreWhen Believers Do Not Believe
I have come to think people of faith are the most unbelieving bunch. In everyday parenting, there comes situations when I have to question my children on what they have done or not done, said or not said. If they sense that I have any trace of disbelief in their answer, their plea for me…
Read MoreFundamentalism is Boring
Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination. ~ BJ Miller As I continue to work on my Raising Children Unfundamentalist project, concocting antidotes for the toxicity of bad religion, among the most potent ingredients found in my brew is that of imagination. I have decided that what makes fundamentalism so vile is…
Read MoreYou are Raising a Good Kid
Big congrats to fellow Christian blogger, Rachel Held Evans, and her husband for the arrival of their baby boy. Rachel has helped me and so many others put words to our faith evolution, and as she becomes a mother, I am selfishly hopeful she will share some of her reflections on parenting with shifting faith.…
Read MoreThe Problem with Shepherding a Child’s Heart – Part 2
This post is part 2 critiquing Ted Tripp’s popular Christian parenting book, Shepherding a Child’s Heart. Last week I said this, “Undergirding Tripp’s parenting book is a theological assumption of the nature of the child and the role of the parent.” According to Tripp, the nature of the child is sinful, idolatrous, and bound by…
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