Hi colleagues,
Pursuing a DMin at Virginia Theological Seminary has taken up much of the time I used to use for writing on this website. But, it has introduced me to some wonderful people and books, including R.L Stollar’s The Kingdom of Children: A Liberation Theology (that’s an affiliate link to my Bookshop where you can pre-order a copy).
Stollar is a child advocate with extensive knowledge of the homeschooling movement and its impacts. He has written what he describes as the second book on child liberation theology. If you have ever struggled to interpret Bible stories about children in ways that value and care for children, I recommend chapters 3-5. My personal favorite chapter was “Seeing Children as Theologians” which dives into the relationship between theology and play.
The book creates a structure on which a child liberation theology might be built. Stollar suggests activities to engage children in this work. As he says, “If the point of liberation theology is to give a group of humans the right and power to learn and speak about God on their own terms, then would not child liberation theology require children to create and lead the theology themselves?” This work challenges practitioners and theologians to put children’s voices first in the emergence of a robust, robust, and liberative child theology.
While I don’t write as often as I would like, there are many resources for Advent and Christmas still here on the website. Enjoy!
Grace and Peace,
Christine
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