Michelle and Cliff talk with Michelle Junkin, Co-director at Big Faith Resources about making certain church is accessible to those with Neurodivergence and Brittney Porch starts us off with an appetizer giving us some ideas for family worship spaces within worship and a resource for how to get started. 

Michelle and Cliff talk with Brittany Sky, Project Manager for Gen On Ministries. 

We also start off with an Appetizer from Jenna Caldwell Campbell discussing Faith formation in our youth and families.

Michelle and Cliff kick off Season 3 talking Faith Formation and the part Christian Education plays with Gregory Rawn from Spirit and Truth Publishing.

Appetizer: John Magnuson Helps us to streamline our Faith Formation

Season 3 with a focus on Faith Formation Kicks off August 11!

Michelle and Cliff talk with Dan Davis of Animate Mentoring about having conversations about identity with our young people.

Cliff and Michelle discuss the very difficult topic of talking with the young people in our lives about mental health and suicide with Tandra Rutledge from Soul Shop Movement. 

Michelle and Cliff talk with Rodger Nishioka, head of staff at Village Presbyterian Church in Kansas City, Kansas. Rodger is an author and was previously the Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education at Columbia Theological Seminary.

Michelle and Cliff talk with Melissa Wear a Principal Consultant at Public Square Strategies working on international issues about how to discuss politics around tables, even the ones that might be a little contentious.

Michelle Thomas Bush and Cliff Haddox are joined by Nicole Doyley, to discuss mixed race parenting in nurturing a positive race identity. Nicole has worked in church ministry almost 25 years and has authored 3 books and published numerous articles in the Huffington Post and The Witness: a Black Christian Collective. Nicole will be releasing a new book in the Spring: A Parent's Guide to Fostering Identity with Mixed Race Children. She also hosts her own podcast "Let's Talk: Conversations on Race with Nicole Doyley"

Michelle and Cliff are joined by the Head of the Trinity Episcopal School in Charlotte North Carolina to talk about some of the hard conversations out young people are having and how we can be a part of them.