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Titles by: Joyce MacKichan Walker

Author: Joyce MacKichan Walker

Joyce MacKichan Walker is a Presbyterian minister and Director of Christian Education at Nassau Presbyterian Church in Princeton, New Jersey. She has written numerous Christian education materials and trains Christian educators.

By Joyce MacKichan Walker
Loner ten-year-old Jess Aarons and new neighbor Leslie Burke become best friends, creating together an imaginary land across a creek behind their houses, where they can escape rejection at school and, for Jess at least, invisibility at home.Leslie jo...
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By Joyce MacKichan Walker
Amazing Grace tells the story of the twenty-year effort of William Wilberforce, member of the British House of Commons, to abolish the slave trade and slavery. Even though his bills were defeated year after year, and even though he was chronically il...
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The Art of Asking Good Questions 
The Role of Questions in Discussion
By Joyce MacKichan Walker
A helpful reminder of the role of asking good questions to encourage group interaction and learning, this essay also gives helpful pointers about designing, ordering, and directing questions for group study with youth or adults.

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By Joyce MacKichan Walker
In The Golden Compass we encounter another film against which some Christians have attempted to organize boycotts. The initiating controversy lies with the book on which the movie is based, His Dark Materials, Book 1: Northern Lights, by Philip Pullm...
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By W. Eugene March, Joyce MacKichan Walker
In the last decades of the eighth century BCE, a prophet named Micah came to Jerusalem. He was from Moresheth, a small village located some twenty-five miles southwest of the capital, Jerusalem. He was a contemporary of Isaiah of Jerusalem, and like ...
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By James C. Howell, Joyce MacKichan Walker
For at least 1,700 years, Christians have observed a season of prayer and preparation leading up to Christmas. Advent is a word that means "to come, to show up," and in the chaos of the shopping and party frenzy, we Christians try to pull the shutter...
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Stories and Symbols of the Nativity 
A Christmas Study Pack for Advent
By Joyce MacKichan Walker
The Christmas story may be the most familiar story from the Bible, yet if asked to tell it, most people would get many details wrong! The story most of us "know" often represents an amalgam of biblical and secular tales. Was there really a little dru...
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Stories and Symbols of the Nativity 
A Christmas Study Pack for Advent
By Joyce MacKichan Walker
Editor’s Note: This study was originally published by www.TheThoughtfulChristian.com. No substantive changes have been made. All rights reserved.The Christmas story may be the most familiar story from the Bible, yet if asked to tell it, most people w...
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Ways to Get Adults to Talk 
Improving the Quality and Quantity of Participation in Adult Discussions
By Joyce MacKichan Walker
Asking a good question is only half the work of inviting fruitful conversation. This essay offers helpful tips for designing a learning experience that elicits better responses and puts adults at ease rather than creating anxiety within the group.

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