An Overview of Child Liberation Theology, 2022-2023 Series:
Part One: An Introduction to Child Liberation Theology
Part Two: Why Your Faith Community Needs Child Liberation Theology
Part Three: Your Family and Child Liberation Theology
Part Four: The Nuts and Bolts of Child Liberation Theology
Part Five (coming soon!): Why Child Liberation Theology Must be Intersectional
Part Six (coming soon!): Including Children in Child Liberation Theology
Part Seven (coming soon!): Resources for Further Learning
Also on this site:
Towards a Child Liberation Theology
The End of Child Liberation Theology
Centering Children: The Hermeneutics of Child Liberation Theology
God Is Child: The Child-Centric Christology of Janet Pais
Using vs. Liberating Children: How Child Theology Differs from Child Liberation Theology
Nico Botha on Children as Theological Hermeneutic
The Power of Adults Over Children: Oppressive or Liberative?
Desiderius Erasmus and the Child’s Right to Education
The Binding of Isaac as Cautionary Tale
Corporal Punishment as Religious Colonialism
The Efficacy of Corporal Punishment
The Message of Non-Violence is First and Foremost a Message to the Powerful
Love Does Not Abuse: The Parenting Philosophy of bell hooks
How Jesus Talked About Children
Guest post by Rebecca Stevens-Walter: Intergenerational Worship as Social Justice
Children Are Not Powerless: A Disagreement With Janet Pais
Preorder “The Kingdom of Children,” Coming November 2023!
A Child’s Right to Feel: An Interview with Rev. Benjamin Perry
Noah’s Flood and The Bible’s Unseen Children
On Cindy Wang Brandt’s Unfundamentalist Parenting site:
Tearing the Robe Twice: Christian Parenting and the Rape of Tamar
Reading Violent Bible Stories Through a Child Protection Lens
The Lot of the Abused: How We Shift the Blame Onto Victims
The Little Girl Who Saved the Mighty Man
Bearing Down on Them: What Parents Can Learn from Elisha and the 42 Boys
Children, Disobey Your Parents in the Lord, For This is Right
A Little Child Will Lead Them: Child Protection and the Kingdom of God
Child Protection Is For All God’s Children
Children as Theological Concern and Hermeneutic
We Live in an Anti-Child World
Give Children Space to be Conscientious Objectors
Understanding Children’s Existential Struggles
It’s Time to Speak Out Against Corporal Punishment
Corporal Punishment is Violence. And Violence Against Children is Abuse.
On Homeschool Alumni Reaching Out:
How We Marginalize Abuse Survivors: The Spirit of Ham
How We Marginalize Abuse Survivors: “All Have Sinned”
How We Marginalize Abuse Survivors: Valuing Forgiveness Over Protection
Featured elsewhere:
Troy Cady, “Child Theology as a Midrashic Process”
Craig L. Nessan, “Child Liberation Theology”
Craig L. Nessan, “Attending to the Cries of Children in Liberation Theologies,” Child Theology
Shantelle Weber, “Beyond Welcoming to Engaging Children for God’s Kingdom,” God’s Heart for Children: Practical Theology from Global Perspectives
Rohan Nelson, “Suffer The Children: A Review Article”
Hannah Sutton-Adams, “Provisioning Stones and Snakes: Constructing an interdisciplinary heuristic of childhood religious trauma and abuse in the American Christian context”
Katherine HawkerSelf, “About the Little Girl”
Kholofelo C. Motha, Matthews M. Makgamatha, and Sharlene Swartz, “Towards emancipatory research methodologies with children in the African context: Practical possibilities and overcoming challenges”
The Faithful Feminists Podcast, “Star Wars and Stewardship”
Rohini Ghosh, “The Parenting Philosophy Of bell hooks: There Is No Love Without Justice”
Human Restoration Project Podcast, “Child Liberation Theology w/ R.L. Stollar”
Sarah Stankorb, “A Liberation Theology, For Children”
CFCtoo, “The Kingdom of Children: A CFCtoo Discussion with R.L. Stollar”
By others:
Janet Pais, “Suffer the Children: A Theology of Liberation by a Victim of Child Abuse”
Daryl W. Edwards, “Black Child Liberation Theology: A Contemporary Christian Model for Mentoring Black Boys and Girls”
Selina Palm, “Seen But Not Heard? Engaging the Mechanisms of Faith to End Violence Against Children,” Childhood Vulnerabilities in South Africa: Some Ethical Perspectives
Douglas Sturm, “On the Suffering and Rights of Children: Toward a Theology of Childhood Liberation”
Kimberly Ann Shinabery, “Blessed are the children: a liberation theology for abused and neglected children”
Rebecca Stevens-Walter, “God of the Oppressed Child”
Rebecca Stevens-Walter, “This is My Body”
Rebecca Stevens-Walter, “The Church Has a Power Problem”
Rebecca Stevens-Walter, “Children are Living in Biblical Times”
Samantha Field, “Child Liberation Theology”
Beth Rooney, “Peer Teaching Project on Child Liberation Theology”