Now is the Time to Ratify the CRC!
Now is the time to ratify the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Posted at February 10, 2012 6 a.m. in
Sharing the Story of an Earth Care Congregation
Posted at February 9, 2012 2:05 p.m. in congregation , earth care , ithaca , model , new york , northeast , success story
World Interfaith Harmony Week at the UN
Posted at February 9, 2012 noon in h.m. king abdullah ii , interfaith , jordan , presbyterian church (u.s.a.) , respectful presence , respectful presence: an understanding of interfait , united nations , world interfaith harmony week
Congregational Food Audit
Posted at February 9, 2012 6:55 a.m. in congregation , food , greenfaith , interfaith , tool , training
A Faith of Their Own
Helping Youth Have a Faith of Their Own
The fact that youth participate in church less as they get older and often are not present in church as young adults can lead church leaders to assume they lack religious interest. A new book growing out of the National Study of Youth and Religion challenges that assumption. Sociologists Lisa Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton found that older teens and young adults see great significance in religion though not always in institutional forms of religious life.
Posted at February 9, 2012 6 a.m. in atheist , camp , conference , discernment , discipleship , not religious , spiritual , study , survey , vocation , young adult , youth , youth ministry