Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this im...

A Guide for Jewish and Christian Educators and ParentsChildren speak about God in ways that are different from adults. They ask many questions about God, questions that can be startlingly direct. Oftentimes adultsparents, grandparents, and teachersfeel uncomfortable answering them.Through fantasy, involvement, and imagination, Sandy Sasso and Annette Compton invite children of all faiths and backgrounds to encounter God openly through moments in their own livesand help the adu...

When God tells Noah to bring the animals of the world onto the ark, God also calls on Naamah, Noah's wife, to save each plant on earth. In this new story, based on an ancient text, Naamah's wisdom and love for the natural harmony of the earth inspires us to use our own courage, creativity and faith to carry out Naamah's work today.

This lively collection is a celebration of courageous and wise women from ancient tradition whom we seldom remember. With vivid prose and lush, full-color illustrations, this storybook introduces Lillith, the first woman in the Garden of Eden according to an ancient legend, who shows her determination to have men and women treat each other as equals; Serach the musician, whose courage to speak out through song heals the wrongs of another generation; Bityah, who draws the baby Moses from the N...

The Rabbis of old believed that the Torah was divinely revealed and therefore contained eternal, perfect truths and hidden meaning that required elucidation. The meaning of a text was more complicated than simply reading it. And meaning changed over time. This understanding of how the Bible mystically relates to all of life is the fertile ground from which midrash emerged. "The rabbis believed that nothing in the Bible, not the choice of words or their spellings, not the order of events or...

Todos los pueblos del mundo se puso a buscar el nombre de Dios ... y cada uno de los muchos buscadores es asegurarse de que él o ella sólo ha encontrado el nombre correcto, el único nombre, por Dios. Por último, se juntan y por fin aprender lo que el nombre de Dios es en realidad. En el texto poético y vibrantes ilustraciones, esta fábula moderna celebra la diversidad y, al mismo tiempo, la unidad de todas las personas.

The townspeople have mezuzahs but cannot agree on how to put them up on their doorways. To end their arguing, they consult the wise rabbi of the town, who advises them to carefully read the Shema in the mezuzah to find the answer.

Poor and: the word everyone takes for granted. So tiny, so common, so easily overlooked. Yet if it weren't for and, so much would fall apart! Who knew such a little word could make such a big difference?When an array of opinionated shapes just can't find common ground, AND comes to the rescue. AND is the link that helps each pair of shapes overcome their differences, teaming up to create something entirely new. Bouncy rhyming text and colorful paintings come toget...

From the snake in the Garden of Eden to the lost sheep in Luke's parable, stories about fish and birds, rams and goats abound. We read about them, but they have no voice of their own. Here we allow the raven and the dove on Noah's ark, the big fish that swallowed Jonah, and the donkey on which Balaam rode, to be the narrators of their own stories, to inform us and help us to re-imagine our stories. We learn something about the intrinsic value of all living beings, and something about ourse...

This is the magical, mythical tale of a poor village at the foot of a hill—a topsy-turvy town with no roads and no windows, where the people sneeze through tall tangled weeds and trip over rocks as big as watermelons. Surely God would help them, they decide . . . but how can God be found, and where should they look? They soon find that the answer is much nearer than they thought. This story teaches that God can be found where we are: within all of us and the relationships between us.

Award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso recasts the biblical tale of Cain and Abel in a way that invites adults and kids to a conversation about anger and our power to deal with it in a positive way.

After his grandfather died Isaiah was told that Grandpa had gone to heaven. Isaiah wondered exactly where and what heaven was. He became determined to find out, and sought answers from many different people. In this charming story, award-winning author Sandy Eisenberg Sasso teaches that heaven is often found in the places where you least expect it.