The Complete Guide to Godly Play: Revised and Expanded: Volume 2 - Softcover

Berryman, Jerome W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819233595 ISBN 13: 9780819233592

Publisher: Church Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Godly Play® is an imaginative approach to working with children, an approach that supports, challenges, nourishes, and guides their spiritual quest. It is more akin to spiritual direction guidance than to what we generally think of as religious education. Revised and updated, The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 2 offers new concepts, new terminology, new illustrations, and a new structure that stem from more than 10 years of using Godly Play with children across the world. 30 to 40 percent of the text is new or revised, including a new lesson, revised Introduction, and a new full Appendix. Audience: Christian educators, the Godly Play® Community, those interested in the spirituality of children

About this title

About the Author

Jerome W. Berryman is the founder of Godly Play and has wide experience working with children ages 2-18. Writer, lecturer and workshop leader, Rev. Berryman is Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He is the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, and The Spiritual Guidance of Children: Montessori, Godly Play and the Future. Cheryl V. Minor is an Episcopal priest who, along with her husband, are co-pastors of All Saints Episcopal Church in Belmont, MA. Rosemary Beales is Chaplain to the Lower School at St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a practitioner and trainer in the Godly Play method of religious education with a DMin from Virginia Theological Seminary. The Rev. Beales is a former journalist and currently serves as priest associate at St. Paul's in Alexandria and St. Alban's in Annandale, Virginia.

Review

"These are some of the most beloved stories of faith in the Godly Play tradition. This new edition helps newcomers and long-time practitioners alike more fully experience God's closeness in the desert, river's edge, or wherever we are found." --The Reverend Sharolyn Browning, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Austin, Texas

"I am excited to see the arrival of the newly revised Volume 2 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play. This volume not only contains additional lessons and resources, but the revisions have been made by those with years of experience practicing the art of Godly Play in circles of children around the world. These updated volumes will definitely enrich our practice as biblical storytellers in the oral tradition." --Di Pagel, Godly Play Foundation Trainer and Christian Educator, First Presbyterian Church of Oakland, California

"This revision of Godly Play® Volume 2 offers clear instructions for Godly Play teachers. The introduction is professional but not exclusionary. I feel confident offering this volume to a newcomer to Godly Play. The revision clearly sets out the theological groundwork for creating sacred space in the classroom, as well as for training teachers. What is made clear is that the end goal is not rote answers but a way of being in the world that is informed and upheld by the Godly Play model of wonder and agency in God's creation." --Charlotte Hand Greeson, curator and editor of "Building Faith"

Edition details

• Publisher: Church Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0819233595
• ISBN 13: 9780819233592
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184