Our Mission
Godly Play: Making meaning through story, wonder, and play. Nurturing spiritual lives by honoring the centrality, competency, and capacity of children.
Godly Play: Making meaning through story, wonder, and play. Nurturing spiritual lives by honoring the centrality, competency, and capacity of children.
There was Something About This Baby’s Death That Was Going to be Important.
A Reflection by the Rev. Cheryl V. Minor, Ph.D.
The Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood for the Godly Play Foundation
“12 Tiny Things: Simple Ways to Live a More Intentional Life”
A Book Review by Joy Studer
Join us for a transformative workshop on "Trauma-Informed Children's Ministry: A Practical Guide to Reaching Hurting Kids." GO DEEPER on this topic and join us for a four-week online book study.
Please join us in welcoming two new members of the Godly Play team, Joy Studer and Raenelle Tauro who will serve as Co-Directors of the Everyday Godly Play grant.
The Godly Play Foundation is pleased to announce that we received a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. from their Christian Parent and Caregiving Program. This grant will enable Godly Play to launch our newest project, Everyday Godly Play.
We are still basking in these seasons celebrating (with gifts, no less!) Jesus’ Incarnation in His teen mother’s womb, and Easter is threatening to thrust us to His Feet at the Crucifixion. Lent invites us to get ready: we pray, we cry, we lament. Yet I wonder, would we still mourn Jesus as a Black God-Man? The new Faces of Easter invites us to wonder together.