Bostrom, author of the popular books 99 Things to Do Between Here and Heaven and Making Space for the Spirit, offers fun, practical, and thought provoking ideas for nurturing the spiritual lives of children, parents, and families. Each of the 99 entr...

Introducing Spiritual Traditons to Teens

The teen years are often a time for searching and questioning many of the fundamental aspects of one's culture and society. This traditional questioning of life by teens often includes the aspect of faith--their own and that of others. What would it ...

A Guidebook for Parents, Teachers, Ministers, and Counselors

Drawing upon personal experience, clinical knowledge, social research, and interviews, Wade Rowatt provides the layperson with the necessary tools to assess and provide spiritual help to adolescents in crisis. Rowatt discusses adolescent crises such ...

Stories that Break the Cycle of Torment

The stories in The Bully and Me are first person accounts by both victims and bullies. The victims try to change the situation and usually, but not always, succeed. The stories are descriptive narratives of what happens to real people. They are based...

Children in the Worshiping Community is a resourceful book inviting congregations to include children in the total life of the church. It offers a warm and sometimes humorous look at the pitfalls and potentials of children and worship. This valuable ...

What Makes a Difference for Teens

Widely known theological educator and sociologist Carol Lytch presents this well-researched study of what attracts teenagers to the church and what keeps them there. The cogent research includes interviews of a number of teenagers and their parents f...

Raising Children in the Real World

Using real life examples, parents Donna Sinclair and Yvonne Stewart offer down-to-earth guidance and sensitive theological reflection for Christians raising children amid the realities of today's world. Issues discussed include materialism, competiti...

Available September 2012. Preorder Now!Drawing on research and case studies, three pastoral care experts argue that one of the primary contexts in which the faith formation of teenage boys takes place is in their relationships with other adolescent m...

Searching for God on the Rough Road of Doubt

At age twenty-one, Andrea Palpant Dilley stripped the Christian fish decal off her car bumper in a symbolic act of departure from her religious childhood. At twenty-three, she left the church and went searching for refuge in the company of men who le...

Playing Video Games with God

Craig Detweiler's collection of up-to-the-minute essays on video games' theological themes (and yes, they do exist!) is an engaging and provocative book for gamers, parents, pastors, media scholars, and theologians--virtually anyone who has dared to ...

A Guide for Adults

How can church members help teenagers aquire Christian moral standards? C. Ellis Nelson views morals as a practical outgrowth of beliefs about the meaning of life, and oulines seven strategies that can help adults influence young adults. He emphasize...

From adolescence and alcohol to yelling, your room, and you yourself, How to Live with Parents and Teachers offers help to teenagers when they need it. Eric Johnson provides answers in plain language to the everyday problems that all young people exp...

The Spiritual Struggles of Boys

The early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one's whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates the in...

Exploring the Christian Life and Confirmation with Young People through Film

Film is one area of popular culture that isn't afraid of exploring life's big ideas and big questions. Even comedy or animated films often have powerful and thought provoking undercurrents. This resource offers an entirely fresh approach to an introd...

What Your Children Need to Know and When They Need to Know It

This updated and expanded version of the bestselling More Speaking of Sex continues to deliver no-nonsense facts in a humorous yet "scientific" manner. With new chapters related to the Internet and multi-faiths, parents will find the latest and great...