Helping Youth and Adults Explore Faith through TV
By: Mark Edwards Each January our youth take a hiatus from our normal age-specific Christian education classes. Instead, middle school students, high school students, and adults met together for an all-ages Sunday School class. Following upon last year’s four-part...
More Harry Potter!
By: Debbie Hough He’s back! Or at least his world is back. Of course, I am referring to Harry Potter and his world of wizards and muggles and so much more. As I write this article the brand new play, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is in previews in London set to...
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Asks Us “Who Is God?” and “Who Am I?”
By: Russell W. Dalton The blockbuster film X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) opens in ancient Egypt, with the world’s first and most powerful mutant, Apocalypse, entering a pyramid as thousands of people are gathered to worship him as a god. However, some human rebels cry,...
Art as Prophecy
By: Steven Tuell A former student told me this story about a conversation overheard at her seminary. A classmate said that she had always loved Roman Catholic cathedrals: dim and cool and beautiful, illumined with jewel-colored stained glass, they had always felt to...
Pop Culture and Faith Formation
By: John Vest In my Ed Talk at the 2016 APCE Annual Event in Chicago, I showed a clip from the original Star Wars movie and the trailer for the newest film, The Force Awakens. I used these clips to illustrate my point that faith formation and spiritual growth are...IDEAS
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