Raising Spiritual Children in a Material World

The increasingly diverse religious landscape in the United States makes it difficult to constrain children within a single religious worldview. Catalfo takes a gentle ecumenical approach to talking with children about God and encourages parents to solicit ideas on religion from their children rather than force-feed them any one particular religious view. Indeed, Catalfo suggests there are many paths to God and many ways to have healthy spiritual lives with one's children. Catalfo searches for ways to give children access to a spirituality that can excite them and provoke their interest in things religious. Raising Spiritual Children is admirable for its great good sense, pleasurable to read and endlessly fascinating for its appreciation of religious diversity. (Apr.)