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Tag Archives: Godly Play

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

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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