Not sure what - or how much - information to share with children and teens regarding sex and sexual health? Do you fear what they might ask? Or how to respond to their questions? Or whether you even know the "answers" yourself? 
Saleema Noon knows all about these fears and concerns. An expert in sexual health education and stepparent to two teenage daughters herself, she understands the challenges adults face when addressing sensitive topics with their kids. 
In Talk Sex Today, Noon delivers an intelligent and sensible blend of current, inclusive, and practical information for children and teens - and the adults who love them. Noon builds on the foundational work of iconic sexual health educator Meg Hickling and her bestselling Speaking of Sex books to offer adults a break-through guide on teaching "body science." 
Together, with a combined 40 years of experience, Noon and Hickling broach a host of topics including:
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 <li>gender identity and stereotypes 
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<li>sexual diversity 
</li>
<li>sexual consent 
</li>
<li>bullying and harassment 
</li>
<li>fostering healthy body image 
</li>
<li>internet safety 
</li>
<li>managing media influence 
</li>
<li>pornography 
</li>
<li>sexual decision-making 
</li>
<li>teaching sexual health to children and teens with special needs</li>
</ul>
 Not afraid of controversy and firm in her belief that knowledge is power, Noon's broadly inclusive approach shines with the affirmation that every person - regardless of race, religion, age, ability, gender identity, gender expression and sexual attraction - deserves respect and the information that will keep them safe. 
This is the ultimate guide to teaching children about sexual health and is ideal for educators and parents alike.

Talk Sex Today: What Kids Need to Know and How Adults Can Teach Them

Self-Help

Noon, Saleema

Hickling, Meg

Wood Lake Publishing

Like the other books in this series, Faith Forward Volume 3 collects the wisdom of some the leading "thinkers" and "shakers" and "movers" in the arena of ministry with children and youth.

Faith Forward Volume 3: Launching a Revolution through Ministry with Children, Youth, and Families

Religion & Spirituality

Csinos, David

Christian Books & Bibles

This collection of responsive prayers is based on the Revised Common Lectionary, Year C, as is perfect for clergy and lay leaders alike. Responsive Prayers, Year C offers an entire year's worth of responsive prayers that can be adapted to a variety of settings and circumstances. This collection includes full prayers for the Call to Worship, Opening Prayer, Words of Assurance, Offering Prayer, and Commissioning, as well as an outline for the Pastoral Prayer, for each Sunday of the lectionary year, plus Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Some Sundays include additional prayer options. Responsive Prayers Year C also includes a scripture index. Authorization to reproduce and freely adapt all the prayers in the collection for use in worship in the local congregation is included with the purchase of the book.

Responsive Prayers: For Every Week of the Church Year, Year C

Sparks, David

Let's admit it. We live in a complicated world where things are a bit crazy - and not in a good way. A global pandemic, wars, racial strife, wealth disparity, death and destruction; we are all affected by these things one way or another, even if only through the media. And we all suffer because of them - sometimes directly and physically; usually emotionally; and often spiritually, though we may not always recognize it. Some of us suffer more than others, of course, particularly those of us who are or have been touched directly by tragedy or trauma. It's enough, sometimes, to make you question your faith. It's enough, sometimes, to make you wonder if you're cursed. "Not so!" says Jesus. Not only are we not cursed, it is in these painful extremes we are the most blessed. With genuine pastoral sensitivity, Schmidt says, "The Beatitudes tell us that we can find and experience God's presence in difficult times. We can know ours lives are expressions of divine love when we seek to bring about peace and justice in our world. We can find comfort when we are grieving and hurting. And all those times when people put us down for our adherence to living the gospel, we can feel assured that - despite ridicule - we are on the right path."

The Beatitudes for Progressive Christians: A Ten Session Study Guide

Schmidt, Donald

Personal Transformation

Meet Aleda Vastag - a feisty, single, female pastor who wears red rubber boots, keeps a cranky old horse as a pet, and doesn't mind a good drink, sometimes even in the church basement! Newly established as the parish's first female pastor, Aleda struggles with feelings of inadequacy and questions the relevance of her ministry as she faces all the characters and challenges, both large and small, that define village life. What happens when the strawberry social is threatened, and when a tragedy shakes the village to its core? The Season for Strawberries is a heartwarming and heartbreaking tale brimming all the joys and sorrows of real life

The Season of Strawberries

Brown, Dorothy

Revelation is a powerful book that was written a long time ago to express a powerful message. Unfortunately, so many people have played with it and interpreted it and have found in it only the things they wanted to find, it's difficult to "hear" the original intent through all the interpretation. Yet, when we set aside the nonsense and speculation, we find a story of God's presence with a fractured and frightened community, which makes Revelation a perfect book to study in our own time and place. Revelation… for Progressive Christians is a seven-session study guide that invites readers to explore Revelation as a fun, hope-filled book that contains a lot of fanciful imagery and symbolic references, to be sure, but that at its core, offers words of assurance and hope to the church and its people today

Revelation for Progressive Christians: A Seven Session Study Guide

The term “mediocre mystics” seems a fitting way to refer to those who yearn for the nameless but do not qualify as full blown mystics. I realize that because there is nothing middling about mystics, “mediocre mystics” may appear to be an oxymoron, but the root meaning of “mediocre” is not second-rate. From the Latin mediocris, the word means moderate or ordinary and has been used figuratively to refer to one who is halfway up a mountain. Unlike ordinary folks, sainted mystics have reached the mountaintop; they are on a first-name basis with the nameless! But just because we haven’t arrived at the heights, just because our lives unfold in the valley of ordinary, everyday life doesn’t mean that we cannot or do not experience the desire that has fueled the mystic’s climb. “All my life my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” –Andre´ Breton All my life I have experienced the yearning to which French writer and poet André Breton refers. For me that yearning is composed in part of a subtle discontent, a quiet feeling that something is missing despite the fact that nothing is missing. Significant relationships, meaningful work, as well as material and monetary security have never been enough to satisfy the desire for that which I cannot name. I know I’m not alone in my discontent or my longing for the nameless, for mystics of every spiritual and religious tradition have spoken of their desire for and experience of union with a spiritual entity that is as real as it is surreal. I am not claiming that just because I share their yearning I consider myself a mystic, but neither do I believe that the term “mystic” is entirely inappropriate for those of us who might glimpse briefly what certified or canonized mystics have been blinded by.

Meditations for Mediocre Mystics

Tom Stella

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