Invited Presenters
Gretchen Wolff Pritchard, Ph.D., Telling children the salvation story (Part 1, Old Testament; Part 2, New Testament)
Robbie Castleman, D.Min., Parenting in the pew: The call, cost and challenges of children in the sanctuary.
Kevin Lawson, Ed.D., Baptismal practices and the spiritual nurture of children.
James Estep, Jr., Ph.D., The implications of neo-Piagetian theories for understanding childhood spiritual formation.
Tina Lillig, Catechesis of the Good Shepherd.
Kelly Flanagan, Ph.D., Fighting the good fight: Children's spirituality manifested as forgiveness of their peers.
Annette Mahoney, Ph.D., Blessed beginnings: First-time parents share how spirituality is intertwined with marriage and the transition to parenthood.
Elizabeth Jeep, Ph.D., Bringing children's prayer into the third dimension: Including the body in prayer.
Scottie May, Ph.D., and Cathy Stonehouse, Ph.D., on their new book Listening to children: Discovering their heart for God.
Marlene LeFever, M.A., Net-porn: Things our children can’t un-see.
Morgenthaler & Boyatzis, Research Methods Panel I
Roehlkepartain & Boyatzis, Research Methods Panel II
Workshops
[A] Jim Conway, M.Div., Nurturing the spirit of children & youth: Framing a conversation on spiritual development.
[B] Melodie Bissell, M.Div. candidate, The church initiating a healing community for abused children.
[C] Ann Trousdale, Ed.D., Theory into practice: Using narrative to support children’s spiritual lives.
[D] Dana K. Hood, Ph.D., Enter in!
Don’t entertain: Joining children in worship, wonder, and the word.
[E] Donald Ratcliff, Ph.D., ChildFaith: How churches can encourage family faith formation.
[F] Katie Posey, M.A., Stunningly spiritual: Discussing literary texts to engage children in spiritual talk at home and school.
[G] Annette Mahoney, Ph.D., Exploring ways in which spirituality can be adaptive or maladaptive in family life: Self and client assessment tools.
[H] Eugene Roehlkepartain, Ph.D. candidate, The spirit of parenting: Nurturing meaning, joy, and purpose in the lives of children and teenagers.
[I] Marlene LeFever, Raising gender-secure children.
[J] Kelly Flanagan, Ph.D., The role of forgiveness in bullying—for parents, teachers, and others.
[K] Jacqueline Bach, Ph.D., & Ann Trousdale, Ed.D., Pedagogical practices which incorporate children’s spiritual formation: Choral reading.
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Additional Papers
Lillian Breckenridge, Ph.D., Collectivism: Providing children the context for a Christian worldview.
Sr. Cynthia Nienhaus, CSA, Ph.D., God loves us all: How insights from the Holocaust can help with the spiritual formation of contemporary Christian children.
Katie Posey, M.A., Divine dialogue: Unearthing spiritual talk from children (9-12) through online discussion of fantasy literature.
Ann Trousdale, Ed.D., Honoring the questions: Analysis of shifts in the treatment of religion in children’s literature.
Scottie May, Ph.D., Katie Stemp, & Grant Burns, Analysis of the new forms of church (Missional, Emerging, Emergent, House) and their ministry with children.
Holly Allen, Ph.D., C. Adams, K. Jenkins, & J. Williams, How parents nurture the spiritual development of their children: Insights from recent qualitative research.
Sharon Short, Ph.D. candidate, Scripture accounts of the tellings of the Bible’s grand story with implications for teaching Bible stories to children today.
Arnold Cole, Ed.D., & Pam Ovwigho, Ph.D., Research findings on scriptural engagement, temptation and behavior among young believers: Implications for discipleship.
Dean Blevins, Ph.D., What “has” happened to sin? Re-conceptualizing childhood depravity in an alternative Wesleyan theological anthropology.
Duane Bidwell, Ph.D., & Donald Batisky, M.D., A spirituality of hope among children with end-stage renal disease.
Ann Trousdale, Ed.D., A natural fit: Theoretical perspectives on narrative, spirituality, and religion.
Jeanne Peloso, Ph.D., Children's images of God: Implications for children's spiritual development.
Jennifer Haddad Mosher, M.A., Irenaeus' stages of faith: An Orthodox perspective on childhood and childlike belief in the divine pedagogy.
Anne Kaminski, MSW, Mentoring to fullness: Children and supernatural experience: Historic precedent and current relevance.
Jennifer Mata, Ed.M., Children’s spiritual experiences as expressed in a kindergarten classroom.
Dean Blevins, Ph.D., At the center of the kingdom: Congregational practices in the presence of children.
Carole Joyce, M.A., Ecclesiology and children’s spirituality: Qualitative study of ministry with children in exemplary congregations.
Elizabeth Dodd, M.Th., Thomas Traherne's sacramental image of the child and how he "Became a Child Again."
Frances Rofrano, Ph.D., I/Thou-I/Spirit: Martin Buber and the spiritual life of the infant.
Amanda Pickerill, Ph.D., Anxiety issues in school-age children: Enhancing spiritual growth through the application of cognitive techniques within a spiritual formation framework.
David Csinos, M.T.S., What’s in a name? Forming the identity of children through Christian naming ceremonies.
Lori Niles, Ed.D., Early childhood spirituality: Researching experience in conversation with Jungian perspectives.
Charles Scully Stikes, Ph.D., A case study of spiritual formation in a sexually abused child according to Jungian theory.
Jennifer Korneck, Dipl.Theo., What children and adolescents think about theodicy and how the Book of Job can help. Discussion
J. Bach, Ph.D., and A. Trousdale, Ed.D., Supporting children's spiritual lives through the choral reading of poetry: A qualitative study.
Cathy Rogers, Ph.D. candidate, Searching for Transcendence: From the mouths of babes in poverty and social isolation.
Youngju Chun, M.A., Seeking the possibilities to include children in corporate worship in the context of Korean church.
Jennifer Beste, Ph.D., Children speak: Second graders’ experiences of sin, forgiveness, and moral agency in the sacrament of reconciliation.
Jennifer Lowe, Ph.D. candidate, An investigation of young children’s emotional experiences and their spirituality in terms of “relational consciousness.”
Donna Thomson, Ph.D. candidate, Results of interview with children’s pastors regarding spiritual development in young children (birth to 8 years).
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