{"product_id":"the-complete-guide-to-godly-play-revised-and-expanded-volume-3-9780898690835","title":"The Complete Guide to Godly Play: Revised and Expanded: Volume 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGodly Play(R) is an imaginative approach to working with children, based on Montessori principles.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Godly Play(R) approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play. Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play(R) method services children through early, middle, and late childhood and beyond. Revised and expanded, The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 3 offers new concepts, new terminology, new illustrations, and a new structure that stem from more than ten years of using Godly Play(R) with children across the world. 30 to 40 percent of the text is new or revised, including two new lessons, two radically changed lessons, a revised Introduction, and a new full Appendix.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinor, Cheryl V.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Cheryl V. Minor is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood, the academic\/publishing arm of the Godly Play Foundation. For the past eighteen years she has served as Co-Rector at The Parish of All Saints' Church in Belmont, Massachusetts. With a degree in Music Education from Boston University, an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Northcentral University in Scottsdale, AZ, her dissertation examined the impact of Godly Play on the spiritual well-being of children. Dr. Minor is also a Godly Play Trainer and has been deeply involved in designing the Godly Play Foundation's training models.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeales, Rosemary:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rosemary Beales is Chaplain to the Lower School at St. Stephen's \u0026amp; St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Virginia. She is a practitioner and trainer in the Godly Play method of religious education with a DMin from Virginia Theological Seminary. The Rev. Beales is a former journalist and currently serves as priest associate at St. Paul's in Alexandria and St. Alban's in Annandale, Virginia.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerryman, Jerome W.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJEROME W. BERRYMAN is the founder of Godly Play and has a wide experience working with children ages 2-18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman is Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStories of God at Home.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Church Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461553819922,"sku":"9780898690835","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb03c926-aa09-4f22-bf06-1798db29e037.jpg?v=1730070577","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-guide-to-godly-play-revised-and-expanded-volume-3-9780898690835","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}