Psalm 23 and a Biblical Imagination for Catechesis
The Church Fathers invite us to teach the faith in ways that emerge out of patient readings and re-readings of Scripture.
Forming Communities of Practice
How should the Church educate her young adults?
Five Theses on Church Discipline
None of us, it seems, is fully practicing what the New Testament envisions for church discipline.
A good map for the journey
We have a catechetical crisis in the Episcopal Church. It must surely color any conversation about prayer book revision.
‘Let the liturgy be’
We spend inordinate time trying to make our liturgy “work”: too much time on prayer book revision and supplementation, too much time on trying to make the weekly service relevant and meaningful.
Rebuilding a culture of teaching and learning
In the early church, instruction of the mind and the conversion of the heart were not alternatives, but two sides of the same coin.
Will our children have faith? John Westerhoff’s question after 40 years
Thousands of seminarians have read John H. Westerhoff III’s Will Our Children Have Faith? and it has guided countless parishes and denominational offices in their Christian education programs.
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd: The gold standard in children’s education
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd exhibits confidence in the gifts God has given the Church, and calls the whole child to encounter God.