Faith Forward

Amy Yu sits down to share about her experience in leading intergenerational ministry at Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church in Toronto. Through her research, she has learned about the dynamics of engaging in all-age ministry at a church with multiple languages and cultural dynamics.

The Faith Forward podcast returns with a conversation with Glenys Nellist. Glenys is an author of many pictures books, including 'Twas the Morning of Easter, God's Perfect Peace, and the I Wonder story Bible. You can learn more about her work at www.glenysnellist.com.

Faith Forward podcast host Dave Csinos recently met Natasha Crozier at a conference where she presented about how children's literature can be an avenue for fostering wonder and curiosity. In this episode, they talk about how families, faith leaders, and faith communities can rediscover the imaginative power of children's books.

Ivy Beckwith and Dave Csinos celebrate the ten-year anniversary of their book, Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus. They talk about their visions for the book, how children's spiritual formation has changed in the past decade, and their hopes for the future.

This episode is sponsored by Atlantic School of Theology. In this episode, the Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III joins Dave Csinos to talk about his new book "Dancing in the Darkness." Dr. Moss shares about how hope can help to heal the spiritual crisis in which we find ourselves and how parents can become the primary storytellers in their families.

This episode is sponsored by Atlantic School of Theology. Godly Play has become a well-known and well-loved approach to nurturing faith in children in many different contexts. But how did it begin? What does it aim to accomplish? And where might it be going next? Dave Csinos sits down with Godly Play founder Jerome Berryman to talk about all these things and more! As you listen to Jerome share from his heart, you'll lose sense of time and become caught up in his sense of joy and wonder.

This episode is sponsored by Atlantic School of Theology. How can adults join children in making theological meaning? In this episode, Dr Tanya Marie Eustace Campen shares about her recent book Holy Work with Children: Making Meaning Together. She explains how children's ministry is rehearsal for the reign of God and how ministry leaders can encourage wonder, bravery, and exploration in faith formation with children.

This episode is sponsored by Atlantic School of Theology. Dr Eser Kim discusses her recent research into identify formation and empowerment of young people in congregations. She explains why youth remain marginalized in churches, why racialized and immigrant young people experience a double marginalization, and what faith communities can do about it.

Claire Brown and Anita Peebles sit down with Dave Csinos to talk about how families and churches can nurture the theological imaginations of young people. They tell the story behind their new book New Directions for Holy Questions and unpack all sorts of ways that families and faith communities can engage the ideas within it for the sake of forming progressive theological curiosity among young people. Learn more at https://www.churchpublishing.org/newdirectionsforholyquestions

Holly Allen shares about her new book Forming Resilient Children and how nurturing spirituality in children and youth can help promote resilience in the face of grief and trauma. There aren't any steps to follow to form resilience in young people. But there are ordinary practices that parents and pastoral leaders can do that make a world of difference. For more information, see https://www.ivpress.com/forming-resilient-children

Elizabeth Corrie shares about how youth ministry can be a space where practices of nonviolence and peacebuilding thrive. Drawing from her recent book Youth Ministry as Peace Education, Beth explains how adults and young people alike need to overcome violent stereotypes of adolescents and how the church can transform itself into a place where teens are empowered to change the world.

Lacy Finn Borgo joins Dave Csinos to describe holy listening with children, a process for engaging in spiritual direction with young people. Based on her book Spiritual Conversations with Children, Lacy unpacks key ideas undergirding "holy listening sessions" and explores how adults can engage with practices of deep listening with young people. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, pastor, teacher, or volunteer leader, you'll be empowered to have spiritual conversations with the children in your lives.

In this episode, Dave Csinos talks with Annie Lockhart-Gilroy, an expert in youth ministry and religious education and author of Nurturing the Sanctified Imagination of Urban Youth. Believing that there is tremendous value doing new things with youth, she shares from her research into emancipatory faith formation practices with adolescents. You'll learn how young people from all contexts can become freed from adult expectations and assumptions and how their imaginations can transform the church and the world.

This episode features the first part of a panel discusison hosted by Atlantic School of Theology. Dave Csinos interviews Mary Nichol, Steven Argue, and Traci Smith about how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped and re-shaped how ministry happens with children, youth, and families.

This episode features the first part of a panel discusison hosted by Atlantic School of Theology. Dave Csinos interviews Mary Nichol, Steven Argue, and Traci Smith about how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped and re-shaped how ministry happens with children, youth, and families.

Montague Williams takes listeners into a deep exploration of race and racism within congregational youth ministry. He challenges readers to tackle the anti-virtue of post-racialism and to see how colour-blindness amounts to nothing short of theological malpractice. Listeners will be encouraged to consider the ways that young people in their contexts offer invitations to talk seriously about the realities of race and racism in the church and the world, if only we have eyes to see these invitations.

In this episode, sociologist and former children's pastor Henry Zonio explores his PhD dissertation research into how children's ministry curricula teach about race and gender in implicit and explicit ways. You'll learn about how you can ensure that the messages your church is conveying to its young people are consistent with God's love of diversity and God's desire for justice.

Catherine Maresca shares wisdom from her decades of teaching Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and helps listeners learn how to invite children to discover the Bible for themselves. She shares from her new book "Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand Challenging Stories."

This crossover episode with the Work Experience Podcast (workxpc.com) features a conversation with Bradon French of the Uniting Church of Australia. Dave and Bradon talk about what it means to be progressive, why intergenerational ministry matters, and what it means to intergenerate our preaching practices.

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, Melvin Bray shares about how God calls us to do better. Tackling difficult but necessary topics, like what lives are worth protesting and the supremacist logic built into the church, Melvin doesn't mince word. Hear Melvin as he opens his heart and expands our minds for how the church - and the world - can become better by re-imagining our stories.