Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - Chapter 2, The Science of the Spiritual Brain

                                    

Chapter 2, The Science Of The Spiritual Brain

Is there a biological and genetic basis for spirituality? The answer appears to be “yes” based on twin studies and other studies of neuroscience. Miller outlines four major areas for findings. First there is an inborn and universal awareness of the transcendent.  Second, there is a cross cultural surge in transcendence peaking in adolescence as the person becomes individuated from their family of origin and goes on their vision quest in the external world to “find themselves.” Third, there is a growing awareness that spirituality is nurtured and enhanced in relationships. Fourth, there is a growing awareness that the search for truth and meaning takes one within to “heart knowing” rather than  without to the world of external projections and perceptions,

This awareness on the part of parents and other nurturing adults that spiritual development is as important to healthy functioning as physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning contributes to an awareness and desire to facilitate the spiritual growth of children on the part of adults.

Working with a seventeen year old drug abusing, academically failing, rebellious high school senior in psychotherapy at the insistence of his parents, I was frustrated because we were getting nowhere after three visits until I asked him not knowing where to go in our conversation, “So Bret, what is your interior spiritual life like?”. The smirk disappeared and a pensive look appeared on his face and it seemed to be the first time he was willing to take our meeting seriously, and he said to me in a thoughtful tone, “That’s an interesting question.”

He didn’t ask me what I meant by “interior spiritual life.” He seemed to intuitively know what was being referred to and became reflective.

It is this kind of phenomenon that Dr. Miller is describing in this chapter. It is usually missed by adults in our culture, and our young people’s lives are at higher risk for unhappiness for it having been overlooked and not having been addressed during this important part of their development.

Questions:

1. What was your interior spiritual life like as a child and adolescent?
2. Have you ever focused on and discussed this topic with a child or adolescent with whom you have a relationship?
3. What are the factors that have contributed to our society overlooking this critical factor in child and adolescent development in our contemporary culture?

Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - Spirituality is a protective factor against life’s more destructive stressors.

Spirituality is a protective factor against life’s more destructive stressors.

In a study of spiritual individuation published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, we found that a developed personal relationship with God (expressed in comments such as, “I turn to God for guidance in times of difficulty,” or “When I have a decision to make, I ask God what I should do”) was highly protective against slipping from experimenting with to addiction to alcohol and drugs. 

Our published findings showed that an adolescent with a strong personal relationship with the higher power, compared to an adolescent without this inner source of spirituality, is 70 to 80 percent less likely to engage in heavy substance use or substance abuse. There was no protectiveness at all related to the intensity of adherence to the family religious tradition. In fact, religion helped only when the adolescent had independently, working within their own faith, developed a personal transcendent relationship. 

We know that many adults get into rehabilitation programs only after years of substance abuse. Substance abuse beginning in adolescence can be the onset of decades of suffering; adolescence is the window of risk for a lifetime course of disorder with alcohol and drug abuse, often set in motion by unmet spiritual needs. 

The escape and connection described by teens needs to be understood as a spiritual quest, inherently good and important. We as parents need to help the adolescent see that spiritual hunger is not met by alcohol or drugs. The illusory jolt from drugs does not last; it only jump-starts the physiology. There is nothing sustaining in it. Authentic spirituality requires reflection and the development of a road back to transcendence through the cultivation of our inner life, through prayer, meditation, or perhaps good works, intertwined with our general capacities of cognition, morality, and emotion.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 43). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Helping young people develop a relationship with the transcendent is a protective factor contributing to reliance which buffers the negative impact of various external and internal stressors during childhood and adolescence. What loving parent would not want to encourage the development of this relationship with the transcendent in their child?

The big question is how?

The parent can’t share what they don’t have. Like many things, parents try, sometimes, to contract this out to a church or religious institution, but this alone rarely is enough. It is the relationship with a spiritually attuned other that make the difference in the child’s life. In Alcoholics Anonymous and other twelve step programs this person is called a “sponsor.” In some traditions this person is called the “god parent” or “confirmation sponsor.” However these roles in religious traditions have atrophied to such an extent that they are usually now only honorary roles.

Big Brother and Big Sister programs as well as mentorship programs and sometimes coaches attempt to fill this role. However, in order to be helpful, these relationships have to endure for 4 or 5 years or longer to make a significant difference according to research.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations. However, while their Lifespan religious training programs seem good in theory, they rarely work out in practice because of the inability to retain and sustain relationships over a long enough period to make a difference in child and adolescent development. The same might be said for helping parents nurture the spiritual development of their children.

And yet UUs talk a good game and aspire to help. Lack of resources and competence hamper the efforts, but hopefully they will continue to try and learn.

Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child, The pause that refreshes.

Topic Eleven

Prayer - The Pause that refreshes.

Without support and encouragement to keep developing that part of themselves, children’s spiritual development weakens under pressure from a culture that constantly has them feeling judged and pressured to perform, and that trains them to evaluate others the same way. Our culture has not necessarily been welcoming to spirituality and its questions. Our predominantly materialistic, 24/7 media-infused world is not set up for the introspective thought involved in spiritual reflection. We’re pressured to fill downtime with productive activity, and we often feel compelled to fill in any quiet moment with diversions. This is how we live and this is what we’re modeling for our children.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 31). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The world of the ego is extremely demanding, crushing, damaging to the spiritual health of our children and ourselves.

Do we take time for aesthetic pleasures when we can just smell the roses and savor precious moments which fill us with awe, curiosity, and gratitude? The old Coke commercial uses the meme, “The pause that refreshes.” This advertising slogan was used to sell a surgery, caffeine laden soft drink. Supposing we used the same slogan to sell the practice of soulful mindfulness asking ourselves and our children to pause for a minute five times a day as the Muslims do, and pray?

Spiritual book discussion - The Spiritual Child - Is childhood spirituality natural?

Spirituality is a vast untapped resource in our understanding of human development, illness, health, and healing. Specifically, research in medicine and psychology has found that people with a developed spirituality get sick less, are happier, and feel more connected and less isolated.
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Further, research shows that natural spirituality, if supported in childhood, prepares the adolescent for critical developmental tasks of that age. If supported in adolescence, natural spirituality deepens and can become a significant resource for health and healing through adult life.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 28). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

In developmental terms, the timing of change in developmental spirituality coincides, exactly, with that of other forms of development and appears interrelated; it emerges alongside secondary sex characteristics, abstract cognitive development such as meta-cognition and meaning making, and onset of fertility. This has been the focus of groundbreaking research in my lab, studies in which we have tracked the development of natural spirituality and its protective effects from childhood through adolescence into emerging adulthood.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 29). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

It is an interesting observation and idea that spiritual development is similar to physical, cognitive, emotional, and social development. People have known this since time immemorial and societies have supported it until the last 50 years when religion as an institution has faded as an influence in modern life. And so, the question in our contemporary time is, how is spirituality to be nurtured in our current day society when increasing numbers of people report on polling that they are not religious but spiritual. Is this spirituality being nurtured and cultivated somehow? How do parents cultivate it in themselves and in their children?

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Topic Nine

Caring for the earth is an important part of children’s spirituality.

Natural spirituality is a direct sense of listening to the heartbeat of the living universe, of being one with that seen and unseen world, open and at ease in that connection. A child’s spirituality precedes and transcends language, culture, and religion. It comes as naturally to children as their fascination with a butterfly or a twinkling star-filled night sky. However, as parents we play a powerful role in our child’s spiritual development, just as we play a powerful role in every other aspect of our child’s development. 
           Science now tells us that this spiritual faculty is inborn, fundamental to the human constitution, central in our physiology and psychology. Spirituality links brain, mind, and body. As we’ll see shortly, epidemiological studies on twins show that the capacity for a felt relationship with a transcendent loving presence is part of our inborn nature and heredity: a biologically based, identifiable, measurable, and observable aspect of our development, much like speech or cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (pp. 25-26). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Dr. Miller describes the child’s natural intuition of the UU seventh principle, respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

One of the primary functions of good parenting is to acknowledge the child’s intuitive sense of being a part of something greater than one’s self.

Children are fascinated with stories about animals and the natural world. They are fascinated with their own bodies and how their bodies interact with nature around them, the air they breathe, water they wash and bath in, the dirt which nurtures plants, flowers, trees, and animals that live on and under its surface.

One of the six sources of Unitarian Universalism is “spiritual teachings of Earth-centered traditions which celebrate the sacred circle of life and instruct us to live in harmony with the rhythms of nature.”

Good parents name these ideas, objects, and dynamics of the natural world around us and imbue it with sacred meaning. We are not here to dominate the earth but to live with it in harmony, respect, and nurturing care and love.

In these days when the awareness of human induced climate change is growing, it is more important than ever for parents and other adults to recognize, acknowledge, validate, and nurture children’s intuitive sense of their oneness with the All of existence.

Do you allow and encourage your children to play in the dirt, grow plants, feed the birds, observe the wildlife around them?

Do you inculcate habits of recycling, conserving natural resources, picking up litter, growing things in pots or a garden?

Do you have pets that you encourage your children to take responsibility for the care of?

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Topic eight

What is this spirituality we should be nurturing in children and ourselves?

It is important to take a moment here to precisely define “spirituality” as I use it in this book, and as it exists as a crucial dimension of spirituality in science: 

Spirituality is an inner sense of relationship to a higher power that is loving and guiding. The word we give to this higher power might be God, nature, spirit, the universe, the creator, or other words that represent a divine presence. But the important point is that spirituality encompasses our relationship and dialogue with this higher presence. 

Spiritual development, as I define it as a scientist and use the term in this book, is the growth and progression of our inborn spirituality as one of our many perceptual and intellectual faculties, from taste and touch to critical thinking skills. Spiritual development is the changing expression of this natural asset over time as new words, explanatory models, and ideas—whether theological, scientific, or family views—allow us to feel (or not feel) part of something larger, and experience an interactive two-way relationship with a guiding, and ultimately loving, universe.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 25). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

The first step as parents in nurturing the natural spiritual abilities of our children is to have a vocabulary: names for things. One of the most important things a good parent does with their children is say to them, especially when they are upset, “Use your words!”

When it comes to spiritual thoughts, feelings, motivations, and preferences, what are the words we use? Sometimes they come from religions, or poetry, or stories, or movies, or experiences in the natural world and the artistic world.

The best words are the words the parent feels most comfortable with. What are the spiritual learnings that you grew up with that have personal meaning for you? Can you share these with your child and see if they resonate? Sometimes children have their own words and insights.

As I was loading our wood burning stove my four year old daughter was watching, fascinated, and she said to me, “Daddy, the wood is the life of the fire.” I was astounded at this statement and all I could think of to say at the time which still seems inadequate is “Yes, honey, it is.” I wish I had said some further wise things like, “Isn’t it wonderful how the wood changes and keeps us warm.” or “The death of the wood changes its life into something wonderful for our benefit.”

There are moments like these that come up all the time all through our days. Do we see God in them and comment on it to our children? What are the words we use or can use? It takes a search, a bit of an effort to come up with a vocabulary to express our own thoughts and feelings, let alone words that are understandable to a child. It is well worth the effort though as we the parents, and they the children, both grow and are spiritually nourished from our efforts and activities.

What are the words for spiritual thoughts and feelings from your childhood?

What are the words you use currently with your children and grandchildren?

How have these discussions been empowering or disappointing?

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Spiritual book discussion, The Spiritual Child, For spirituality to develop a personal relationship with a Higher Power must be experienced,

For spirituality to develop a personal relationship with a Higher Power must be experienced.

Lisa Miller points out her book, The Spiritual Child, which we have been reading and discussing in August and September, 2020, that Kendler’s study did not meaningfully find a correlation between spirituality and one specific religious denomination, something that UUs have known for centuries. Francis David, the Unitarian pioneer said in the sixteenth century that we need not think alike to love alike.

Lisa Miller writes on pages 8-9,

For adolescents who develop a strong spiritual compass outside of a religious tradition, as well as adolescents who develop a strong spiritual compass within a religious tradition, spirituality manifests itself as an inner awareness or a sense of relationship with a higher power. When developed from within a religious tradition, the process is just as personal and takes as much initiative and hard work as when it’s developed without a religious tradition. Even when an adolescent benefits from the guidance of a religious tradition, the significance of specific teachings must still be derived at a deep personal level for the benefits to be felt. Memorizing creed without personal investment is not enough. For some adolescents, questioning spiritual assumptions is crucial to ownership. Finally, other adolescents develop personal spirituality through an intense and often prayerful deepening of faith. In all cases, what makes spirituality meaningful is personal choice and ownership. 

So, while organized religions can clearly play a role in spiritual development, the primary engine that drives natural spirituality is innate, biological, and developmental: first an inborn faculty for transcendent connection, then a developmental impetus to make it our own, and the resulting deep personal relationship with the transcendent through nature, God, or the universal force.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (pp. 8-9). St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Understanding this phenomenon, a good parent considers how this experienced relationship with a Higher Power can be nurtured?

First it must be named.

Second, the child’s experiences with their Higher Power must be validated.

Third, spiritual practices such as prayer, worship, daily life review can be discussed, encouraged, and coached.

Fourth, listening to the young person describe their experience with these practices contributes to reflection and adjustment.

Fifth, the parent’s own spiritual life is enhanced by sharing experiences with one’s child.

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Spiritual book discussion - The Spiritual Child - Difference between religion and spirituality.

                                     Spirituality and religion are often two different things.

In a twin study on religion and mental health, psychiatric genetic-epidemiologist Kenneth Kendler and his colleagues looked at “religion” as compared with “spirituality” in nearly two thousand adult twins. It was shown statistically that in people’s lived experience, personal spirituality is a different concept from adherence to religion or choice of religious denomination. Instead, spirituality was shown to be a sense of a close personal relationship to God (or nature or the universe or whatever term each person used for higher power) and a vital source of daily guidance.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 7). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

In Kendler’s study, spirituality did not meaningfully correlate with one specific religious denomination; there are highly spiritual people in all denominations, and highly spiritual people who don’t adhere to any specific religious denomination. With these distinctions established, science had identified a crucial and valuable dimension of “spirituality,” and researchers could get busy exploring spirituality’s contributions to good health, mental well-being, fulfillment, and success.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 8). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Psychological research has found that spirituality and religion are two separate things although they can overlap.

Spirituality is the felt attunement with one’s Higher Power. It is a feeling of belonging with something bigger than oneself. As we will find, this sense is innate and natural and is either nurtured or extinguished by many factors with one of the most important being the relationship with the primary caregiver with whom the child is bonded and attached.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote seven principles the third of which is the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations. This acceptance and nurturance is important for parents as they in turn nurture their children. People can’t give what they don’t have and so the primary focus of a children’s and youth program in a church should be on the parents' relationship with their children which often is the template for the child’s experience of transcendent unconditional love.

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Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - Religion and Spirituality

Topic Five

Religion and Spirituality

The research shows a clear difference between strict adherence to a particular religious denomination and personal spirituality, with the latter focused upon spirituality as “an inner sense of living relationship to a higher power (God, nature, spirit, universe, the creator, or whatever your word is for the ultimate loving, guiding life-force).” This focus may seem clear and self-evident, but it took nearly two decades for the scientific community to embrace it.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (pp. 6-7). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Some people are religious but not spiritual, and some people are spiritual but nor religious, and some people are both religious and spiritual and some people say they are neither.

What about you? When the Pew Research Group does studies on the topic of religion they find that in the United States people increasingly say they are spiritual but not religious. It is ambiguous about what people mean by this. When questioned further they say things like “There is something out there bigger than me.”

So the way it winds up being discussed is the belief in a “Higher Power” whatever that Higher Power might be for them.

The first question for the parent-child relationship is what does the parent think about a Higher Power and having gained some clarity about that, what do they want to nurture, inculcate, and teach their children?

The important point here is that religion and spirituality are two different things and what a parent shares with their child about a Higher Power is important for the child’s development.

Children in the United States are encouraged up to the age of seven to believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Guardian Angels and other mythical creatures. At age seven the child comes to the “age of reason” and gives up these beliefs, and what, if anything takes their place? Parent-child discussions about Higher Powers after age 7 become more difficult.

What do you believe and what do you want to teach your children and grandchildren that would be helpful and healthy for their development? What kind of social support would you like for your efforts?

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Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - The importance of nurturing a child's spirituality

The UU A Way Of Life spiritual book discussion usually chooses a book a month for discussion. This month, being the first book, the discussion will last two months: August and September. There is plenty of time to get a copy of the book and join our discussion below.

The importance of nurturing a child’s spirituality.

Our children have an inborn spirituality that is the greatest source of resilience they have as human beings, and we, as parents, can support our children’s spiritual development. Our parenting choices in the first two decades radically affect our children’s spiritual development in ways that last their entire lives. Natural spirituality, in fact, appears to be the single most significant factor in children’s health and their ability to thrive.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (p. 6). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

As a Psychiatric Social Worker with over 50 years experience in the field of mental health and substance abuse I have always been fascinated with the question , “What makes you tick?” Rarely these days do people respond with any reference to their interior spiritual life or their spiritual nurturance as children. If people do bring up religious training it is often a source of wounding and distress.

In  my professional training we were taught what is referred to as the “bio-psycho-social” model. Only in the last 10 - 20 yrs has there been more attention paid to the spiritual. We will get to the distinction between religious training and spiritual training in the next article, but for now let’s focus on what spiritual experiences and inklings you had in the first two decades of your life, and what spiritual experiences and practices you would like to encourage your children to develop? Who can help you with this?

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Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - Parenting is the emodiment of God's love in the world

Parenting is the embodiment of God’s love in the world

In the first decade of life, the child advances through a process of integrating his or her spiritual “knowing” with other developing capabilities, including cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development, all of which are shaped by interactions with parents, family, peers, and community. Without support and lacking encouragement to keep developing that part of himself, the child’s spiritual attunement erodes and becomes “disaggregated” in the crush of a narrowly material culture.

Miller, Dr. Lisa. The Spiritual Child (pp. 3-4). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Children are born with innocence and then socially conditioned to think certain things, feel certain things, and behave in certain ways. An interesting question is “what does this social conditioning consist of? What are the beliefs, opinions, values, and practices which the child is subjected to?”

Parents are very attentive to material things as they should be because they sustain physical life. Then they are attentive to social and psychological things because they contribute to harmony and peace and enjoyment. Parents are very attentive to whatever they consider “success.” In the United States we are a success driven culture not only for the child’s well being but for the parent’s ego and satisfaction.

Many children are exploited consciously and unconsciously by parents and other family members for their own benefit. In such situations the spiritual well being of the child is overlooked. The child is experienced as a means to an end, not an end itself. Love is conditional and not unconditional. Children become spiritually stunted and damaged.

This spiritual harm and damage is done both by sins of commission and sins of omission. It is not only what is done to the child, but what is not done that contributes to spiritual failure to thrive.

Unitarian Universalists covenant together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. This begins at conception and birth and continues throughout the life cycle. We often think life begins at birth but it doesn’t. It begins in the twinkle or lack thereof in the parents’ eyes. Was the child wanted or unwanted or a surprise? Perhaps the first milestone of a child’s spiritual life is in the fact of whether the child was wanted. Was the parent cooperating with the creative power of the universe to bring a new being into the world or just the necessary machinery for the production of a human being.

The responsibility for fertility resides in the person engaging in the procreative act and this is where the spiritual journey of the person begins.

Unitarian Universalists also covenant together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations. This principle applies to child bearing and raising as one of  the first sentences a child can say stringing words together in a sentence is “It’s not fair!”

There is nothing that forces an adult to grow up faster than becoming a parent. The adult’s own spiritual orientation becomes the basis for the child’s spiritual development. Is the child wanted? Is the child loved unconditionally? Is the parent the embodiment of God’s love in the world?

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Spiritual Book Discussion - The Spiritual Child - Where does one get a spiritual compass?

Where does one get a spiritual compass?

“Spirituality is the central organizing principle of inner life in the second decade, boosting teens into an adulthood of meaning, purpose, thriving, and awareness.” The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller, p.3

 Adolescence is a time for forging one’s own identity and finding one’s place in the world. It is a time for the vision quest, leaving home, and learning how to make one’s way to self sufficiency. It is a time when the developing person needs an inner compass beyond the family of origin. Without this inner compass, the person is adrift, confused, perplexed, scared, and then depressed.

To soothe this confusion, perplexity, fear, and depression our society offers chemicals, sex, glamour, status seeking, and risk taking behaviors. The other option is to turn inward and experience a relationship with a Higher Power which provides guidance, intuitive wisdom, courage, and grace. From where does this inner spiritual growth and development come? Did you feel a connection and faith in something bigger than your ego self? What kind of guidance, support, and nurturance did your spirituality receive? From whom? From where? From where will your children and grandchildren receive such nurturance and guidance?

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UU A Way Of Life - Book of the Month, August 2020, The Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller

Beginning in August, 2020, UU A Way Of Life will be featuring a book on spirituality which will be the book of the month. Please read along with us and leave your comments. 

The book for August 202 is the Spiritual Child by Lisa Miller. (If you buy the book from our UU A Way of Life Amazon ad UU A Way Of Life gets a small commission at no charge to the buyer,)

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Lisa Miller’s book, The Spiritual Life, is based on science. Dr. Lisa Miller is a professor of Psychology and Education and the director of the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.

The book focuses primarily on the first two decades of life. She writes, “The absence of support for children’s spiritual growth has contributed to alarming rates of childhood and adolescent emotional suffering and behaviors that put them at risk.” p.3

As a Psychiatric Social Worker with over 50 years of practice in the fields of mental health and substance abuse with clients of all ages as an individual, couple, group, and family therapist, I can support Dr. Miller’s statement having witnessed spiritual impoverishment as being a contributing factor to my client’s mental health and substance abuse problems.

In this increasingly secular age when more and more families are unchurched and religious training and membership is ignored if not disparaged, how are parents to nurture the spiritual life of their children when wider social institutions are not nurturing their’s?

With the rates of childhood depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide on the rise how are we to respond as parents, caregivers, professionals, and citizens in our society?

Join us as we explore some of these questions this month as we read, “The Spiritual Child” by Lisa Miller.

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