Liturgical Resources

• Formation
• Children’s Charter

• Vital Practices – Vestry Papers page
• TEC Life Long Formation pages
• Lesson Plans That Work
• Building Faith (ecumenical, but TEC-driven)
  • see especially Christian Ed Links at middle right of landing page
  • Resource Room: Christian Ed handbook, curriculum reviews, links to all manner of things
  • Living In-Formation newsletter
• Center for the Ministry of Teaching–Virginia Theological Seminary
  • see especially Episcopal Teacher under “Publications” and the “Partners Page”
• Rite Series

• Church Publishing
  • Morehouse
• Thomas Nelson
• United Methodist Publishing House
  • Cokesbury
  • Abingdon
  • Abingdon Youth
  • Ministry Matters
• Routledge (Religion)
• Roman & Littlefield
  • esp. Cowley Publications
• Creative Communications
  • booklets and doodads for the liturgical year
• Forward Movement
• Leader Resources

• Lifelong Faith
  • fantastic journal filled with both ponderous and practical information
• Logos Ministries
• Genon Ministries
• Build Faith
• Text This Week
  • motherlode of quality, ecumenical sermon prep, prayer, liturgy and children’s materials
  • portal to ATLA
• Wabash Center
  • grants for liturgical innovation
  • general support for teachers\
• Faith Formation Learning Exchange
  • connected to Lifelong Learning and Center for Spiritual Resources

• Christian Education: A Bibliography, Edited by Charles Bellinger, Wabash Center

• Anthony, Michael J., ed. Evangelical Dictionary of Christian Education. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

• Anthony, Michael J., and Warren S. Benson. Exploring the History & Philosophy of Christian Education : Principles for the 21st Century. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2003.

• Anthony, Michael J. Introducing Christian Education : Foundations for the Twenty-First Century. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2001.

• Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth, S. Steve Kang, and Gary A. Parrett. A Many Colored Kingdom: Multicultural Dynamics for Spiritual Formation. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2004.

• Cram, Ronald Hecker. Understanding Trends in Protestant Education in the Twentieth Century. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1998.

• Dykstra, Craig R. Growing in the Life of Faith : Education and Christian Practices. 2nd ed. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.

• Elias, John L. A History of Christian Education : Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Perspectives. Malabar, Fla: Krieger Pub. Co, 2002.

• Erricker, Clive, and Jane Erricker. Reconstructing Religious, Spiritual, and Moral Education. New York: Routledge, 2000.

• Everding, H. Edward. Viewpoints : Perspectives of Faith and Christian Nurture. Harrisburg, Pa: Trinity Press International, 1998.

• Everist, Norma Cook. The Church as Learning Community : A Comprehensive Guide to Christian Education. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2002.

• Foltz, Nancy T. Handbook of Planning in Religious Education. Birmingham, Ala: Religious Education Press, 1998.

• Groome, Thomas H., and Harold Daly Horell, eds. Horizons & Hopes : The Future of Religious Education. Mahwah, N.J: Paulist Press, 2003.

• Halverson, Delia Touchton. The Nuts & Bolts of Christian Education : Practical Wisdom for Teachers & Leaders. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2000.

Annotated Bibliography of works on “experience from the underside of history,” by Wayne F.  Farrell (April 19, 2010)

Bredin, Mark. True beauty: finding grace in disabilities. Cambridge, Eng.: Grove Books, 2007.

• Summary: God in salvation has shown that all of humanity is sinful and broken. It is a mistake to link grace with all the trappings of worldly beauty and economic success. Grace then invites us to see our weakness and created nature. However, we reject God’s grace and refuse to see ourselves as God sees us. We refuse to see the needs of others and we have become autonomous individuals. Yet it is in others, especially the faces of the sick, disfigured, and disabled, that we see reflected divine grace. The able- bodied are seduced by their independence and fail to see their need for God. The weak reveal those lies, and point to the need to see ourselves as created, rather than creator.

Creamer, Deborah Beth. Disability and Christian theology: embodied limits and constructive possibilities. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

• Summary: Reflection on the lived experiences of disabled people is more complex and fluid than the category suggests. The author states that one cannot define what is meant by “body” by studying only the healthy experience, just as one cannot study gender or race by looking only at the black, female perspective. As insights have come by engagement with the particularities of other marginal perspectives, reflection on disabilities also offer new theological contributions.

Downey, Michael. A Blessed Weakness: The Spirit of Jean Vanier and l’Arche. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986.

• Summary: L’Arche has grown to include over seventy communities world-wide, representing over two hundred family-like homes. Loose in structure (yet high on organization), the communities of l’Arche are founded upon the belief in the uniqueness and sacredness of each person, whether handicapped or not. Motivated by the beatitudes in Christian living, the gifts of each person are to be nurtured and called forth with predilection for the poorest, weakest, and most wounded in community and society. This way of life is in itself a spirituality of the heart. Vanier and l’Arche have learned about the truth of God and humanity, based upon their experience of love with the wounded and the vulnerable, motivated by the conviction that each human being is unique and indeed sacred.

Eiesland, Nancy. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994.