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24/12/2022

  We are excited to promote two intriguing calls for papers from University of Sheffield-based partners of Sacred Texts Child Readers – both for new journals, both broad and open to creative submissions. We hope to inspire you to share … Continue reading →

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The Box as a Stage for Parables in Godly Play: An Act of Concealed Interpretation

13/09/2022

By Jeremy Clines To offer stories, week-by-week, to children, as if they are biblical narratives, when what is offered is a smaller amount of biblical material framed within a much longer theological narrative conceals the act of interpretation. The ‘Parables’ … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Stories, Faith formation resources

Forced marriage: Biblical, Problematic, in Godly Play …

13/09/2022

By Cath Kennedy Western Christianity is taught using stories of forced marriage. Religious materials for children have a lifelong effect, orienting cultural ideas of belonging, virtue and family life. So what children learn about the Bible is important. In Godly … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Stories, Faith formation resources

Danger Keep Out! The Ancient Near Eastern landscape in Jerome Berryman’s ‘Godly Play®’

13/09/2022

By Jeremy Clines There is a strangeness in typecasting the region stretching from the Levant to Mesopotamia as a ‘desert’ when it would more ordinarily would be described as the Fertile Crescent. There is an oddness in embodying much of … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Stories, Faith formation resources
Photograph of a ROOTS writers conference showing adults around a table smiling and talking

Editing for Kids – Roots on the Web

05/09/2020

Sacred Texts’ Cath Kennedy talked with Clare Williams, the Children and Young People Resources Editor for ROOTS, the ecumenical worship resources publisher. How does a team of only six go about preparing original resources to be used with all age … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith formation resources
Painting of woman with tambourine, by Anselm Feuerbach

Shut up and Dance? Myriam’s Tambourine, and other modern Inventions

29/07/2020

This is the second of two blog posts about Myriam with Dr. Kirsi Cobb of Cliff College. The previous one can be accessed here. For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s and 80’s, the baby in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Stories

Little Women and Little Girls: Talking about Myriam in the Bible

29/06/2020

The biblical character Myriam, sister of Moses, features relatively prominently in children’s Bibles and Bible stories, despite only appearing a handful of times in Exodus and Numbers. Sacred Texts’ Cath Kennedy sat down with Kirsi Cobb who lectures in Old … Continue reading →

Posted in Bible Stories
children chasing hoops

Using the Remembered Bible

24/05/2020

By Janet Lees I was a School chaplain for 8 years from 2010 to 2018 in a school in Yorkshire. For children aged form 3-18 years, this school was affiliated to one of the smaller Protestant Churches in Britain of … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith formation resources

Daughters of a Lesser God? Abraham’s Women in Jerome Berryman’s Complete Guide to Godly Play

27/02/2020

This is the second of two blog posts by Cath Kennedy discussing the portrayal of gender roles in Jerome Berryman’s Complete Guide to Godly Play volumes 2 and 6. For more information about this, please refer to the previous post … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith formation resources

Berryman’s Abraham: Friend of God and Spiritual Scientist?

30/01/2020

This is the first of two blog posts by Cath Kennedy drawn from a 2016 article examining the retelling of the Abraham Cycle in Godly Play. The other will discuss the portrayal of femininity through Sarah and Hagar. Godly Play … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith formation resources

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