by Sita Diehl | November 21, 2019 | Children's Religious Education
Grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children gather at a farm house to celebrate Christmas in the Russian tradition. Based on Polacco’s childhood memories, this is the story of her Great-uncle Vladimir, known as Vova, and his colorful and inventive celebrations...
by Sita Diehl | November 16, 2019 | Children's Religious Education, Home and Family, Small Meetings
This picture-book version of the Biblical parable of the loaves and fishes tells the story from the perspective of the young boy who offers up his simple lunch of rye bread loaves and fish he’d caught at his quiet fishing spot to Jesus, who uses them to feed the...
by Sita Diehl | October 17, 2019 | Adult Religious Education
“This volume examines the ways in which our communal practice in meeting and other gatherings is a spiritually formative influence on us, both as individuals and as a corporate body. Our communal practice is also an expression of the transformed life we seek to...
by Sita Diehl | October 17, 2019 | Adult Religious Education, Book Recommendations Adult RE
This volume of personal spiritual practices, located within the context of Quaker spirituality, formations and transformation, if the first part of a longer work on Quaker spiritual formation. An important part of the underlying vision, however, is that personal...
by Sita Diehl | October 17, 2019 | Adult Religious Education, Small Meetings, Young Adult Friends, Youth Education
This book is based on Michael J. Sheeran’s doctoral work in the Dept. of Politics at Princeton University. A Jesuit priest, he spent two years (1973—75) conducting interviews, reading, and observing the actual decision-making of the Quakers. Sheeran was convinced...
