Product Description: Challenges parents to view parenting through the Developmental Asset framework, highlighting how the assets can reshape major parenting tasks and suggesting ways parents can find support in their community.

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young people in a complex and changing world. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.

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Product Description: Book by Roehlkepartain, Jolene L., Roehlkepartain, Eugene C.

Product Description: Combining service-learning and the asset framework in congregational, school, and youth program settings, this resource is designed as a workbook and includes ideas, suggestions, and worksheets to make the most of the asset-building potential of any service-learning program.

Product Description: Eugene Roehlkepartain explores the problems and possibilities uncovered by the Effective Christian Education study conducted by Search Institute. This volume contains worksheets and checklists to be used in evaluating a congregation's educational programs as well as charts and graphs that interpret the data effectively...read more