By Alyssa Pasternak Post

Graceful Nurture: Using Godly Play with Adults, by Rebecca L. McClain, New York: Church Publishing, June 2017. 128 pages.
$18.95. Paperback. ISBN-13: 9780898699678

Godly Play practitioners: Have you ever wondered how the richness and beauty experienced with children in Godly Play might be shared with adults? In Graceful Nurture: Using Godly Play with Adults, Rebecca L. McClain offers an invaluable resource in how to implement Godly Play with communities of adults. McClain presumes what many of us have sensed in our lives and ministries: that “Godly Play is an integrated and holistic model of Christian living for every age and stage of life” (xi) and that the work of passing on the Christian language system and creating meaning for one’s life from sacred stories and rituals is the work of all ages. Continue reading →