Parenting
The Problem with Shepherding A Child’s Heart – Part 1
As I am writing my book on Raising Children UnFundamentalist, I find it has become necessary to engage with conservative Christian parenting literature. Progressive Christianity has, by and large, rejected and ignored conservative parenting ideas which is unfortunate, because it remains a crucial task for us to address the problematic theology underlying popular Christian parenting…
Read MoreHow to Talk about Sex with Kids
I can’t sing enough praises about my Raising Children UnFundamentalist Group – they are by far the most welcoming group of people. They are filled with wisdom and funny anecdotes and resources. Today, I asked them, how do we raise our children unfundamentalist in regards to sex? We wanted to avoid Christian purity culture because…
Read MoreRaising Children UnFundamentalist Q&A
We have been having some stimulating conversations over at my new Facebook Group, Raising Children UnFundamentalist, and I thought I would feature some of the best Q&As from the group for blog followers who aren’t there. From this week, I asked, Q: I started reading Faith Shift by Kathy Escobar (which, btw, everyone should go…
Read MoreWhy Are Religious Children Mean?
Having written extensively on how Christian parents can raise children un-fundamentalist, this article piqued my attention as it made its rounds on the internet: Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds. Surveying 1,200 children from Christian, Muslim, and non religious families, the results “robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either…
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