CATEGORY: Christian Education

What is Coming and Becoming in the Theological Education?

Each month we ask a different person from the NEXT Church community to assemble a series of posts around a particular theme. This month, Lee Hinson-Hasty is curating a conversation around […]

Mister Rogers, Children, and the Small Church

Each month we ask a different person from the NEXT Church community to assemble a series of posts around a particular theme. This month, Andrew Taylor-Troutman is curating a conversation […]

Children’s Church is the Church

By Rodger Nishioka In their book, The Godbearing Life, which has now become a youth ministry standard, Kenda Creasy Dean who teaches at Princeton Theological Seminary and Ron Foster, pastor […]

Getting Out of the Rut, then Moving Toward Abundant Joy

By Sophie Maness Twenty-five years of working in the church is a mere “drop in the bucket” to the length of time that many of the education models of the […]

Let the Children Come

Today we aren’t posting new material, but pointing everyone back to the fabulous Theresa Cho and her blog Still Waters. Theresa and the saints at St. John’s Presbyterian Church create […]

A Child Speaks About Church

By Steve Lindsley and Lynn Turnage Hey. HEY! Down here…. Yes, thanks.  Hello.  It’s me.  I’m a kid in your church. Nice to meet you. I’m sure you’ve seen me […]

Faithful Millennials, Children, and the Steps In Between

Beginning today, we’re changing up the NEXT Church blog a bit. We’ll continue to post good content, but each month will have a different theme or lens for what’s NEXT. […]