[1] This issue of JLE gives congregations an opportunity to host two kinds of adult education discussion.\u00a0 The first, is to consider the possibility of non-violent parenting.\u00a0 Reading Kathleen Gallagher Elkin\u2019s essays on the Household Codes of Ephesians, participants might consider what it would mean to rethink the way we expect the use of force in the education of children. Rarely today do we allow corporal punishment by teachers for students, why do we continue to allow (and even expect) the use of physical force by parents for children?\u00a0 What other practices might we use?\u00a0 What can churches do to teach these non-violent practices?<\/p>\n
[2] The second kind of discussion worth holding is one in which congregations consider how they might consider the needs of all children.\u00a0 Breaking free from the model that parents make choices for their families alone, congregations can consider how they might support all children.\u00a0 What practices in the church might better serve children and might better protect the children in our societies?<\/p>\n
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[1] This issue of JLE gives congregations an opportunity to host two kinds of adult education discussion.\u00a0 The first, is to consider the possibility of non-violent parenting.\u00a0 Reading Kathleen Gallagher Elkin\u2019s essays on the Household Codes of Ephesians, participants might consider what it would mean to rethink the way we expect the use of force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,53,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-youth-family","category-feminist-mujerista-womanist-theologies","category-violence"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n