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a new Core Lesson about the Holy Bible that could be used with all ages and would be less costly.
may invite children of all ages into this practice at the beginning of any Godly Play circle.
More details about the curriculum changes in the new Volume 2 and Volume 3 can be discovered at www. godlyplayfoundation.org/second-edition-of-the-complete- guide-to-godly-play/. Along with in-depth stories about the updates, we have posted one-page quick guides, which we recommend for every Godly Play storyteller and for every Godly Play room. The revised and expanded Volume 4 of The Complete Guie to Godly Play is expected out in January 2018, and details about the curriculum updates in Volume 4 will also be posted on this webpage.
We want to conclude by saying thank you to all Godly Play practitioners around the world. We truly appreciate your emails and questions over the last fteen years as you worked with these lessons. We listened carefully and hope you will see that re ected in the revisions. We look forward to many more years of working collaboratively with the greater circle—please keep the feedback coming!
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Dr. Berryman wrote the lesson called “The Holy Bible,” which introduces the book (or books collected into one book) and underscores that the stories in our room come from this one big book. It is recommended that you present “The Holy Bible” to your circles every year. The material is simply a large, beautiful Bible on a bookstand, which may be purchased from Godly Play Resources. In your Godly Play room, the Bible and its stand are placed on the top of the Transition shelf, located between the Old and New Testament Sacred Story shelves. It is suggested that before you sit down to tell a story from the Bible, you open the presentation Bible to the passage from which the story comes. Children can go over to the Bible during work time and read the passage—or they can make a bookmark to mark the passage.
The revised and expanded second edition of Volume 3
became available in September 2017 and, for the rst time, describes two Godly Play practices that some mentors may already use. The rst is side-by-side storytelling, which enables circles familiar with the stories presented to go
deeper into their theological connections. To begin this practice, Volume 3 lays out the logistics for side-by- side parables. Additionally, Volume 3 includes details for a practice called “Making Silence.” Contemplative silence is the fourth story genre of Godly Play, and after following Volume 3’s story introduction for making silence, Godly Play mentors
The Rev. Cheryl V. Minor, Ph.D. is the director of TheCenterfortheTheologyofChildhood.
Cheryl.minor@godlyplayfoundation.org
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