Symposium on the Spirituality of Children

The Rev. Dr. Jerome Berryman offers the Keynote, Playing in the Flow of God’s Creative Power: A Theology of Childhood.

Elisabeth M. Kimball, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Lifelong Learning and the James Maxwell Professor Chair of Lifelong Christian Formation at VTS, serves as host.

Elizabeth DeGaynor, Th.D. Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Christian Formation at VTS, serves as host and panel facilitator.

Br Luis Enrique Hernández Rivas CFC offers opening prayers. Follow his theology in the public square of TikTok @brotherluis.

Rev. Ebony Grisom, a Godly Play Missioner and member of the Godly Play Anti-Racism Task Force, serves as a panelist.

The Rev. Matthew Kozlowski, Ph.D., Associate Rector at All Saints Church, Bethesda, MD, serves as a panelist.

Sarah Bentley Allred, M.Div., Editor of Building Faith, serves as a panelist.

Rev. Lakisha Lockhart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Christian Education at Union Presbyterian Seminary, serves as a panelist.

What is This Story Doing to Me? Biblical Storytelling for a Global Generation

Holy Work with Families: Dancing Together

Nurturing Children’s Innate Spirituality Through K-12 Education

All, Some, None: A Multilayered Interpretation of Children’s Theological Meaning-Making

Children, Signs, and Spiritual Literacy: An Interfaith Experience

Prophetic Wonder with Children in the Call to Teach: A Lasallian Inspiration

Listening with Children: A Spirituality of Race

Let the Little Children Theologize: Moral Development, Critical Thinking, and Preschool Faith

Made in His Image: Constructing Gender in Children’s Sunday School