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Narola Ao,
“Hidden Stories, Hidden Truths:
Uncensoring to Unleash”
Ina Ter Avest,
“Father and Daughter: Religious
Identity Development Through Filmed
Stories”
Judith Ann Brady,
“Dorothy Day: A Love of fiction and Her Love of the Poor”
Sinai Chung,
“Youth Ministry with 1.5 Generation
Korean Americans: Conversion Stories
of Love and Acceptance”
Russell Dalton,
“Miraculous Readings: Using Fantasy
Novels about Reading to Enhance
Scripture Reading”
Mary Hess,
“Crafting and Sharing Stories of Faith in a Media Culture”
Randle Lewis,
“Master Teacher or Teaching Master: Recovering the Master-Apprentice
Model in Religious and Theological Education”
Brian J. Mahan,
“Mysticism, Manners, and Religious
Education”
Tim Martin,
Limning the Landscape of Religious
Narrative”
Siebren Miedema,
“Heart and Reason: A Comparison of
John Dewey’s
A
Common Faith and His
‘Religious’ Poems”
Gabriel Moran,
“Logic of Religion, Logic of
Fiction”
Naoki Okamura,
“Un-Autobiographical
Autobiographies: Investigating the
Life-Stories of Ten Elderly Nisei
Christian Women at a Local Japanese
American Church”
Anthony Ozele,
"Representations of Cultural
Resilience and Perceptions of
Reality in Nigerian Movies and the
Crises of Personal Identity Among
Nigerian Adolescents"
Margaret Myrtle
Power,
“The Lovely, Dark, Deep Woods of
Narrative Fiction: Making Room for
the Religious and Ethical
Imagination of Children”
Carl
Procario-Foley,
“Autobiography and Curriculum: Its
Theory and Application to Religious
Education in a Millenial Era”
Therese Ratliff,
“Sins, Saints,
Sacraments, and Stations”
Christopher Kennard
Richardson,
“Encountering the
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious:
the Roles of Art in Religious
Learning”
Richard Rymarz,
“Using Stories to Illuminate Hard
Topics in Religious Education”
Peter W. Shafer,
“The Heart, Not the Face: Race,
Religion, and Righteousness in a
Civil War Era Children’s Tale”
Kyoung-Hee Shin,
“Theological Truths of Folktales and
Its Educational Implications for
Intercultural Religious Christian
Education”
Mai-Ahn Tran,
“Faith Fictions and Ghosts of
Memory: ‘The Word Between This World
and God’”
Vickie Wiltse,
“Heroine’s Journeys: An Analysis of
the Potential Power of Tamora
Pierce’s Fantasy Novels for Women’s
Growth and Development”