Judson Press recently released Youth Ministry in the Black Church: Centered in Hope by Anne Wimberly, Sandra Barnes and Karma Johnson — yet another important resource for professors, youth ministry leaders, and Christian education directors! An overview of the book list three areas that form the book’s frame for discussing challenges and strategies for youth […]
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Routledge has announced the publication of new volume in its Studies in Religion series: Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith, by Ruth Illman and W. Alan Smith. In contrast to “the narrow emphasis of modernity on reason and the scientific method as the basis of all knowledge,” Illman and Smith focus on “discrete practices of
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Morehouse Publishing has announced the release of Julie Lytle’s new book, Faith Formation 4.0: Introducing an Ecology of Faith in a Digital Age. “Framed by the Great Commission’s imperative to ‘make disciples,’ Faith Formation 4.0 shows how to reclaim the characteristics of the original oral tradition of the Early Church while using today’s tools of
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Paraclete Press announces a new book, written and compiled by Thomas Groome and Colleen Griffith of Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. The authoritative list of contributors includes Brian E. Daley SJ, Joan Chittister OSB, Alex Garcia-Rivera, Elizabeth A. Johnson CSJ, Ana María Pineda RSM, Sandra M. Schneiders IHM, Esther de Waal, N. T.
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Congratulations to Alan Smith, Florida Southern University, and Ruth Illman from Åbo University in Finland, whose co-authored book entitled Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith is scheduled to be published by Routledge this June! Alan and Ruth have developed a “practical theology of the arts” and their book includes seven “etudes” that analyze arts communities
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The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago announced that The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Conrad, Christ Seminary-Seminex Professor Emeritus of Educational Ministry at LSTC, died at his home in Iowa City, Iowa, on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. A dear friend and colleague in REA and APPRE, Bob Conrad was director of the doctor of ministry
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Rune Larsson, Dr of theology and director of RPI (Religionspedagogiskt idéforum*), invites colleagues to present themselves and their research on a web site for religious educators: www.rpi.se. The section of the web site that is devoted to “Educators” aims to inform an international audience of religious educators about the work of colleagues so that they
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Dr. Stephen A. Schmidt, who served as APRRE president from 1993-94, died last weekend at the age of 79. Author of many books and articles, including A History of the Religious Education Association (1983), he taught at Concordia College, Mundelein College, and Loyola University. Read his Biography at the Christian Educators of the 20th Century
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We regret to announce that Joanne Chafe, past president of REA (1985-89), passed away suddenly in Ottawa last weekend at the age of 60. She was Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at St. Peter’s Seminary in London, Ontario. Joanne worked for 37 years in the National Office of Religious Education of the Canadian Conference of
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