Elizabeth Corrie shares about how youth ministry can be a space where practices of nonviolence and peacebuilding thrive. Drawing from her recent book Youth Ministry as Peace Education, Beth explains how adults and young people alike need to overcome violent stereotypes of adolescents and how the church can transform itself into a place where teens are empowered to change the world.

Lacy Finn Borgo joins Dave Csinos to describe holy listening with children, a process for engaging in spiritual direction with young people. Based on her book Spiritual Conversations with Children, Lacy unpacks key ideas undergirding "holy listening sessions" and explores how adults can engage with practices of deep listening with young people. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, pastor, teacher, or volunteer leader, you'll be empowered to have spiritual conversations with the children in your lives.

In this episode, Dave Csinos talks with Annie Lockhart-Gilroy, an expert in youth ministry and religious education and author of Nurturing the Sanctified Imagination of Urban Youth. Believing that there is tremendous value doing new things with youth, she shares from her research into emancipatory faith formation practices with adolescents. You'll learn how young people from all contexts can become freed from adult expectations and assumptions and how their imaginations can transform the church and the world.

This episode features the first part of a panel discusison hosted by Atlantic School of Theology. Dave Csinos interviews Mary Nichol, Steven Argue, and Traci Smith about how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped and re-shaped how ministry happens with children, youth, and families.

This episode features the first part of a panel discusison hosted by Atlantic School of Theology. Dave Csinos interviews Mary Nichol, Steven Argue, and Traci Smith about how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped and re-shaped how ministry happens with children, youth, and families.

Montague Williams takes listeners into a deep exploration of race and racism within congregational youth ministry. He challenges readers to tackle the anti-virtue of post-racialism and to see how colour-blindness amounts to nothing short of theological malpractice. Listeners will be encouraged to consider the ways that young people in their contexts offer invitations to talk seriously about the realities of race and racism in the church and the world, if only we have eyes to see these invitations.

In this episode, sociologist and former children's pastor Henry Zonio explores his PhD dissertation research into how children's ministry curricula teach about race and gender in implicit and explicit ways. You'll learn about how you can ensure that the messages your church is conveying to its young people are consistent with God's love of diversity and God's desire for justice.

Catherine Maresca shares wisdom from her decades of teaching Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and helps listeners learn how to invite children to discover the Bible for themselves. She shares from her new book "Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand Challenging Stories."

This crossover episode with the Work Experience Podcast (workxpc.com) features a conversation with Bradon French of the Uniting Church of Australia. Dave and Bradon talk about what it means to be progressive, why intergenerational ministry matters, and what it means to intergenerate our preaching practices.

In the wake of George Floyd's murder, Melvin Bray shares about how God calls us to do better. Tackling difficult but necessary topics, like what lives are worth protesting and the supremacist logic built into the church, Melvin doesn't mince word. Hear Melvin as he opens his heart and expands our minds for how the church - and the world - can become better by re-imagining our stories.