Faith at Home - by Wendy Claire Barrie (Paperback)

About the Book

Parents long to give their children a strong moral foundation rooted in God through Jesus, a sense of connection, belonging, and purpose. Wendy Claire Barrie shows how to do it simply, adding depth and meaning to the traditions families already have as well as information about basic Christian practices to nurture and enrich everyone's faith at home.

Book Synopsis

Add depth and meaning your family's traditions with these basic Christian practices that nurture and enrich everyone's faith at home.
Home and parents are the key mechanisms by which religious faith and practice are transmitted inter-generationally. Recent studies indicate that the single most important factor in youth becoming committed and engaged in their religious faith as young adults is that the family talks about religion at home. However, for many parents in the United States, religious language is a foreign language.

Faith at Home helps parents learn this "second language" and introduce it to their children in simple, meaningful, concrete ways. Parents often ask: How do we introduce prayer to our children if we do not necessarily believe prayer changes outcomes? How do we approach reading the Bible with our children when our own relationship with it is mixed or complicated? How do we talk about difficult things and where do we find God in the midst of them? How do we teach our children to make a difference in the world? How do we connect what happens at church to what happens at home? These questions and many more are addressed with talking points, practices, and resources provided for each subject.

Review Quotes

"When the parents brought their children to Jesus, the part of the story that got left out was that he gave them A Handbook for Cautiously Christian Parents. This is a must have and must read book for all parents."
--The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, Priest for Pastoral Care Community at Trinity Wall Street and author of The Womb of Advent