Praying with children can somehow feel like both an incredibly simple and overwhelming experience: What do we pray about? Do I need to use a liturgy? Is it okay if we always just use a liturgy? What if they just spend their time praying for things they want?

Most people, adults included, need some guidance on how to grieve. Walking with children through difficult subjects and painful experiences often reveals an adult’s unanswered questions or insecurities. Questions like “Why did God let this happen?” and “Doesn’t God love me?” swell up while emotions churn. As parents, it’s tempting to focus on managing emotions and behaviors rather than helping children work through their grief. Here are four tips to help with that process.

When teaching children about living a life of service, we must recognize both their inherent vulnerability and also their identity as co-stewards of God’s Kingdom.

Three days can feel like a long time in the world of a child, and spending time each day remembering the important events of Holy Week teaches children differently than when they read a storybook and the whole story arc resolves in a few minutes. They are no longer asked to just read about something, they are invited to keep pace with the story and begin to enter into it.

One of the beautiful things about guiding children in the rhythms of the Eucharist is that it holds together both an incredible simplicity and an irreducible complexity.

We catechize children when we invite them into God’s love throughout our worship and prayers. When we pick up toddlers to participate in the Eucharist, whisper to children of their own baptism days during another baptism and pass the plate to them during the offering, we have an opportunity to experientially share God’s sacrificial love and provision for them.

Dr. Emily Hunter McGowin’s new book, Households of Faith: Practicing Family in the Kingdom of God, is an excellent primer on biblical foundations for nuclear and church families.

When the Abbey at Pawley’s Island was considering adding an additional worship service, they did so through the lens of the discipleship culture they’ve been developing for several years—one that prepares not only adults but youth to live out their callings. “You don’t need to be ordained to do about 70 to 80% of our…

By Gabriele Zapata, Grace Northridge There are so many messages in the world. Everywhere you go someone wants to make you believe something. I may not have children, but I sit here writing this knowing I will in seven months’ time. And already the messages are bombarding me: what I can and cannot eat, what…

Percy Strickland, Associate Rector at the Abbey at Pawley’s Island, explains that because of Anglicanism’s use of tools like prayer books, teens can get involved in much of the service simply through reading. “Why not allow these guys to get the experience of reading a prayer or reading scripture more regularly or doing all of these other things?” he proposes. “We say this every service: ‘This is more about participation than performance. It's more about formation than formality.’”