Spiritual Parenting: An Awakening for Today’s Families
Michelle Anthony
David C. Cook, 224 pp., $14.99, DavidCCook.com
Inside Out Families: Living the Faith Together
Diana Garland
Baylor University Press, 172 pp., $24.95, BaylorPress.com
In Spiritual Parenting, Michelle Anthony invites parents to move beyond managing their kids’ behavior to modeling and creating environments of love, respect and responsibility in which their kids’ faith can grow. As young people learn who God is, who they are in Christ, where they fit in the “Big God Story” and the community of faith, and how to serve others, they live into their Christian identity. Discipline becomes a matter of course correction, and behavior becomes a byproduct of belief.
Referencing research data and case studies, Diana Garland hones in on how service makes faith more significant and resilient for Inside Out Families, concluding that congregations may best minister to families by ministering through families.
