Book

Savoring Childhood

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Spiritual Conversations with Children Listening to God Together When children have a listening companion who encourages their early experiences with God, it creates a spiritual footprint that shapes their lives. How can we…

Podcast Episode

Wendy Dean — Unclenched Fists

October 18, 2024

Renovaré’s Education Program Coordinator Wendy Dean talks with Nate about wanting what’s best for our kids and loved ones—and letting God’s vision of the best…

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Lacy Borgo — Spiritual Conversations with Children

February 16, 2020

Renovaré Ministry Team member and author Dr. Lacy Borgo has years of experience working with (and raising!) children, learning from them how to enter the…

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Lacy Borgo — Three Things Every Child Needs

July 23, 2017

Renovaré's resident expert on kids is back again to talk with Nathan about how a child goes from innocence to character, who shapes a child's image of God, and…

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Lacy Borgo — Helping Children Enter Into Life With God

August 7, 2016

Author, teacher and spiritual director Lacy Borgo returns to talk with Nathan about her Life With God children's curriculum, and how parents, pastors and…

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Lacy Borgo — Becoming Like a Child

June 12, 2016

Lacy Borgo returns to talk with Nathan about what spiritual formation looks like for children, and how adults can learn from children to play with and listen…

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Lacy Borgo — Helping Children Make Room for God

April 3, 2016

Educator and author Lacy Finn Borgo talks with Nathan Foster about helping children make room for God through the spiritual disciplines.

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Animal Friends How does a child's theology take shape? In Savoring Childhood, Grace Pouch writes that time in nature helps young people to form a healthy image of God and…

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Singletasking Experiments with simplicity for individuals and families A reminder that “few things are needed”—often far fewer than we think. Grace Pouch offers a few small steps to help us and the children in our care simplify…

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Helping Children Come Away from Distraction to Enjoy God By carefully crafting environments that filter out the world’s distraction, we can help children build skills for a lifetime of connection with God and…

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Helping Children Notice God Cooperating with the movement of the Spirit in children’s lives Lacy Finn Borgo offers practical steps adults can take to help children notice God's presence and to draw them deeper into the goodness, beauty, and truth of…

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Eastertide: How to Party Like a Christian "Tragedy draws us together, but celebration binds us. There is nothing like a good party to make a people one." Easter is a seven-week celebration, and Lacy…

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The Vow of Service in the Family This excerpt from Richard Foster's The Challenge of the Disciplined Life reveals how to live out the Ministry of Power, particularly in family life, through…

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Submitting is an Act of Choice "Giving up getting our own way” is Lacy Borgo's child-friendly definition of submission. And for this discipline to be healthy, that "giving up" has to be an…

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Children’s Spirituality: God Makes the First Move We are delighted to welcome Lacy Finn Borgo to explore some ideas about spiritual formation and children, beginning with this excerpt from her doctoral…

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The Faithfulness of Monica For Mother's Day or any day, it is worthwhile to reflect upon what the faithful prayers of a mother can effect in her children's lives. Augustine of Hippo had…

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Families as Small Monastic Communities Today parents and church leaders are lamenting the fact that children who have been raised with the foundation and knowledge of our faith are leaving it. [One]…

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Making Advent More Meaningful "I hear the laments of parents. I am a lamenting parent. Christmas is too much about the stuff. The stuff begins to clog up the supermarket aisles as early as…

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On Correcting Others How do we lovingly correct without crushing others? Here is Dallas Willard's gentle approach in The Divine Conspiracy.