ChildFaith

Encourage your child in the faith--and be encouraged in your faith as well!

Discussing and showing how faith can be shared with children both at home and in the faith community. See www.childfaith.net

To be released Fall, 2009 by Cascade Books

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Welcome to the ChildFaith discussion area! We encourage you to take full advantage of what is available on this page. There is no charge for joining the discussion group, and the company that hosts the page--not affiliated with ChildFaith or the Ratcliffs--require only a minimum of information for you to join.

Our perspective on spiritual formation fits with the historic Christian faith, shared by many thousands of people through the centuries. The

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Created by Don Ratcliff Apr 4, 2009 at 10:42am. Last updated by Don Ratcliff Aug. 13, 2009.

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A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Christianity Today, and it is great to see that excerpts were published in the January issue. It deals with the idea that no matter how we raise our kids, they make choices of their own. The idea is that we shoul…
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At first I did not give any sort of reward for memorization or bringing your Bible, but then the kids seemed to get bored, and needed a little extra umf, so I started this. After a few months, they are again forgetting their Bibles and not memorizin…
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This question relates to the strategy laid out on the childfaith.net web page that, step by step and week by week, nudges the church and parents in the church towards greater responsibility for children's faith nurture. That strategy is by no means…
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Gina Bluhm

Stickers for Good Behavior 1 Reply

Started by Gina Bluhm. Last reply by Natalie Webb Dec. 5, 2009.

Don Ratcliff

How can churches more effectively encourage parents to nurture their children in the faith? 5 Replies

Started by Don Ratcliff. Last reply by Don Ratcliff Jun. 4, 2009.

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Introduction

Started by Don Ratcliff Apr. 4, 2009.

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Gerard Bean

Kirk Wins Illinois Republican Primary


In the first midterm election of the year, with the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama up for grabs, voters sent a moderate five-term congressman from a wealthy suburb to face off against a 33-year-old state Treasurer who used to play basketball with the president.
Mark Kirk, the Republican congressman, won his primary by nearly 40 percentage point… Continue

Posted by Gerard Bean on February 3, 2010 at 1:33pm

Gerard Bean

Watch the full Apple iPad Keynote online


Apple unveiled their mobile computing tablet on January 27 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.
Many tech sites provided live updates from the event on their blogs and some even broadcasted the event live to the web via their iPhone. The quality was somewhat lacking in these broadcasts and it was often difficult to see clear ima… Continue

Posted by Gerard Bean on January 28, 2010 at 2:35pm

Gerard Bean

The best running shoe may be none at all, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday


Runners who eschew shoes may be less likely to do serious injury to their feet, because they hold their feet differently, Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and colleagues found.
Writing in the journal Nature, they said runners who wear shoes tend to hit the ground with their heels first, whereas barefoot runners put the balls of the feet down fi… Continue

Posted by Gerard Bean on January 28, 2010 at 2:41am

Don Ratcliff

ChildFaith is now available!

The book was released the first week of December by Cascade Books. The publisher stated that it will be five or six weeks before it is listed on Amazon, but it can be ordered directly from the publisher immediately. For an outline of the book and additional information, see the main web site at www.childfaith.net.

Posted by Don Ratcliff on December 15, 2009 at 5:04pm

Don Ratcliff

Online Class on Children's Spirituality from Wheaton College Graduate School (beginning the end of January)

I'll be teaching an online class in children's spirituality beginning the end of January, 2010. Details are at this web page: www.childfaith.net/class.
-Don

Posted by Don Ratcliff on October 21, 2009 at 11:00am

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