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    In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
    In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
    In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World
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    In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World

    Written by Maria Polonchek

    Narrated by Meredith Mitchell

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    About this audiobook

    Part memoir, part cultural exploration, this book covers the author’s journey as she grows up in an evangelical Christian home, leaves religion behind as a young adult, and goes on to raise children in a family outside of religious belief. Maria Polonchek weaves a personal story with up-to-date studies and philosophic exploration of what it means to raise secular children in an otherwise religious world. Offering careful and respectful advice for other parents who are raising their children outside of a particular religious belief system, she explores the many other ways of instilling identity, belonging, and meaning into our lives and the lives of children.

    Honest and irreverent, the author admits to her religious “baggage” and searches for better understanding of such topics as religious education, morality, awe, death, purpose, and meaning and tradition from secular perspectives. She interviews experts, looks at various studies, and turns to a variety of sources for answers while maintaining a casual and personal tone. While she ultimately argues for parents to let their children shape their own beliefs, she encourages families to tend to existential and social needs that sometimes go unnoticed or unconsidered in life outside religion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVibrance Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2018
    ISBN9781624615238
    In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a Religious World

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