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Woven: Nurturing a Faith Your Kid Doesn’t Have to Heal From Hardcover – August 22, 2023

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In this inspiring parenting book, learn how to create space for your children to get to know God in a way that focuses on trust instead of a list of rigid rules.

Most Christian parenting books are ready with exact practices every family should follow in order to raise obedient children. In this obedience-training model, faith is a wall, constructed brick by brick, as adults tell children what to believe and how to behave.

But what if obedience is not the goal of Christian parenting? What if it’s our job as parents to instead help our kids get to know God and discover that God can be trusted? And what if faith is not constructed brick by brick, but rather woven strand by strand?

Much like a spider’s web, in which anchor strands and internal threads combine to form a unique web, Woven can help children anchor to who God is and have faith practices that are rich, textured, and all their own. Kids need space to explore the Bible, ask big questions, and even change their understanding of God and faith along the way. With Woven, families can nurture the kind of faith that can flex and grow, be broken and repaired. This is the sort of faith that can stand up to the life a child will live, the doubts they will encounter, and the questions that will come up along the way.

So many parents want to pass along their faith, but know that God is so much bigger than the list of do’s and don’ts they were taught about as children. They want to pass along a faith their child doesn’t have to heal from. Woven is the guidebook parents have been looking for. With a deep reverence for scripture and suggested activities to help your family grow in faith together, Woven is for parents who want to go beyond a list of do’s and don’ts and pass along a resilient faith based on genuine love for and trust in God.

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Two of my most dearly held opinions are that the God of the Bible is a life-giving God, and that the Jesus we meet in Scripture can be trusted. I suspect you’re reading this because you agree, or at least want to agree, and because of that you wonder if you might introduce your child to Jesus now, before you feel completely ready. So let me say these things up front: There is a way for you to introduce your kid to God, even when the God you were told about as a kid doesn’t totally align with who you believe God to be now. You can still talk about the Bible now that you know how mysterious and unwieldy a book it really is. You can offer answers to your child’s questions about faith even when you now have so many questions of your own. This book will help you learn how.

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"The compassionate, experienced guide we needed all along as we reimagine faith formation with generosity and love."
―Sarah Bessey, New York Times bestselling author of A Rhythm of Prayer and Jesus Feminist

"A clear and kind guide for those of us attempting to disentangle our faith while raising kids in that faith. Meredith helps parents hand down a faith not based on obedience to a checklist, but trust in a God who desires a relationship. If you are searching for a way forward after deconstruction or disenchantment, there is no better co-pilot than this book, and truthfully, anything Meredith puts out into the world."―Erin Moon, co-host of the Bible Binge podcast

"Parenting is difficult and beautiful, and adding faith to the mix just makes it more of both. When I started reading Woven, I wept with relief. Literal tears. I didn't realize the desert I was in until Meredith Miller offered me water. This book is an absolute gift, and I will now aggressively press it into as many hands as possible."
―Kendra Adachi, New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen

“Woven is for every parent who feels overwhelmed and undertrained - meaning all of us. Based on her stellar research and real life experience, Meredith Miller offers parents of children a winning combination for family faith formation: Biblical wisdom translated into everyday ideas that you and I can try at home.”―Kara Powell, PhD, Chief of Leadership Formation at Fuller Seminary and co-author of 3 Big Questions That Change Your Teenager

“Woven took my shriveled, prune-like confidence in raising my kids within a healthy Christian framework and nurtured it into a big, fat, juicy confidence plum. If you are someone who is actively re-learning and re-engaging their faith alongside their children, Meredith's words will give you the tools and courage to have challenging, faith-based conversations with your kids, even when you yourself don't have all the answers.”
―Kelly Bandas, author of Rookie Mistakes: A Grown Up's Field Guide for Getting your Act Together

“At last, an alternative to confusion and fear. Woven is the new classic we’ve been waiting for. Meredith Miller gives us practical tools, presents a clear path forward, and reminds us it’s never too late to change course. I want to put this book in the hands of every Jesus-loving parent I know.”
―Shannan Martin, author of Start with Hello and The Ministry of Ordinary Places

“I’ve never read a Christian parenting book quite like Woven – and I’m so grateful to have it now. Woven is a guiding light for our times and our real lives…. Woven helps us untangle Christ from culture and reminds us who God is – and how that can inform how we nurture and care for the faith lives of our families. I highlighted and underlined my way through this thoughtful, theological, and highly accessible book.”
―Kayla Craig, author of Every Season Sacred and To Light Their Way; creator of Liturgies for Parents on Instagram

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Meredith Miller is a pastor and a parent who has spent most of the past twenty years helping families follow Jesus. She has been involved with Fuller Youth Institute since 2007 and from 2014-2019 she was Curriculum Director for the children's ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, Illinois. Meredith holds a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as a B.A. in Religious Studies and Spanish Language & Literature from Westmont College. She is pastor of Pomona Valley Church and calls Southern California home.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Worthy Books (August 22, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1546004351
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1546004356
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.35 x 0.88 x 9.35 inches

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Meredith Miller is a pastor and a parent who has spent most of the past twenty years helping families follow Jesus. She has been involved with Fuller Youth Institute since 2007 and from 2014-2019 she was Curriculum Director for the children's ministry at Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, Illinois. Meredith holds a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary, as well as a B.A. in Religious Studies and Spanish Language & Literature from Westmont College. She is pastor of Pomona Valley Church and calls Southern California home.

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Customers find the book's approach to spiritual parenting fresh and different. They appreciate the author's approach to building a lasting faith in kids through reading, teaching, and understanding the Bible in a God-centered way. The book is described as an easy read with well-written personal stories and scripture references. Overall, readers praise the author's writing style and content.

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Customers find the book offers a fresh perspective on spiritual parenting. It starts with teaching that God is good and can be trusted. Readers appreciate the practical tips and ideas for implementing family faith practices. The author encourages readers to rely on the Holy Spirit to guide their lives. They find the way she talks about the Gospel more attractive.

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"...I found the trust-based emphasis (instead of obedience training) and the acknowledgement of privilege and saviorism (even at surface level) to be..." Read more

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Paul A. Spangler
Excellent, so very good for families
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
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This was recommended at a Christian education seminar so I eventually picked it up. The book's tagline was intriguing and something I would be interested in. Meredith Miller has an impressive resume with Fuller Youth Institute and Willow Creek and then some. I'm glad I gave the book a try because I'm happy to say the author delivered the goods. I'm so glad she said not all families fit into the prevailing examples of how to have faithful families. There can be creativity in finding what will work for your family, in this time of your life. I'm really glad for her emphasis on reading, teaching and understanding the Bible in a God-centered way. She gave good examples on how it is different from how much of children's ministry uses the Bible currently. I believe this book will help many in how they have faith discussions in their home.

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Kathy W
Thank you, Meredith for helping us imagine helping our kids build a woven faith from the start
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2023
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"Healing from faith" takes a long time. In fact, I'd say my entire adult life thus far (getting ever closer to 40) has been UNlearning things I'd ingested in my growing-up years. Slowly letting go of shame and self-loathing about who I am and fear that God is punitive and angry. Grieving all the joy and freedom that I missed out on while stuck in cycles of pride, shame, and perfectionism.

Needless to say, I desperately want to somehow circumvent learning at least SOME of these things the hard way.

I came across Meredith Miller on Instagram a while back and began devouring all her content. The way she talks about the Gospel is so much more attractive (and no less true!) than paradigms that start with fear. I gobbled up all her examples of how to present the Bible in age-appropriate ways AND respect the Bible for the complex book that it is, with genres and original audiences that must be explored.

If you have kids in your life that you hope will know and love the real Jesus of the Bible (and not felt-board-Jesus, genie-Jesus, or machine-gun-Jesus (helloooo, USA)), please add this book to your wheelhouse! She lays out a helpful trust-based framework that you can build upon as kids get older. She offers lots of practical ideas and samples of how she might present stories and questions she'd ask to encourage conversation.

And now can I share a quote to show you how beautiful this book is?

"Resilience in faith circles is often misrepresented as something firm and immovable, built brick by brick, each doctrine defined, each principle provided, each application prescribed. Resilience, according to the spider, is drawn out of the ability to flex in order to withstand stress, to bend in significant ways without breaking. It is also the ability to reweave the broken strands, so as not to lose your home, and to do so without becoming too exhausted to go on.

Woven faith is resilient faith.

Woven faith, anchored to who God is, and yet uniquely shaped, has the strength to withstand real life. When the internal strands are pliable, change and challenges don't destroy. To be sure, the process of revisiting, questioning, and at times reimagining how those strands connect is stressful. But it's the stress of strength. And yes, inevitably, some strands will break, beliefs we used to hold and don't anymore. The breaking of the strand is a loss, to be sure. We grieve it, but it doesn't need to be the end."

Thank you, Meredith, for naming what so many of us have been weaving and re-weaving as adults, and for helping us imagine helping our kids build a woven faith from the start.

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Olga
Refreshing and practical
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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A healthy approach to parenting and nurturing children’s faith with lots of simple, practical applications for families in many life seasons. I found the trust-based emphasis (instead of obedience training) and the acknowledgement of privilege and saviorism (even at surface level) to be refreshing inclusions in this type of genre. I also liked the spider web analogy for a faith that can handle inevitable changes as part of growth. Good read.

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Christy B.
Helpful and practical
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023
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I loved reading Woven. It has great practical tips and ideas to implement into your family's faith practices. This is not a check list or a way to get "good kids". It's simply starting at the begining and teaching that God is good and can be trusted and how we can see that in our every day lives. It helped me see that our family already does this in many unique ways, which quiets the "Am-I-doing-enough" thoughts. It doesn't have to look like another family's web or schedule. We get to invite our kids to journey with us in meeting God every day and through seasons of life. I enjoyed her breakdown of well known Bible stories so we can learn how to do this on our own as well.

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caligirl
Finally, something that really resonates!
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2023
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I'm a children's pastor and a parent, and I loved this book. So many books about Christian parenting are fear-based, and this one is full hope and practical approaches. You don't have to match her theology, but it's good to know she comes from a more progressive perspective that is still compatible with a high view of scripture. Overall the book just feels like a really fresh take on spiritual parenting, something different than so many of the other books I've read, and I will recommend to all the families I work with!

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Kristin
Perfect for deconstructing parents.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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This book is an absolute gift. Not only did Meredith help me untangle and reexamine my own faith, but she gave me a new framework for raising my kids to know Jesus detached from the legalism of religion. It’s a teaching tool and provides healing for our inner children.

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Brian Tomisser
Good for parents of young kids
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
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This book came recommended and it was a solid book. My kids are older, so the content didn’t apply to me as much. But I enjoyed her approach to building a lasting faith in your kids

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Jennifer E
Great perspective
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2024
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An excellent book and an excellent perspective for someone who did not grow up in the church but has noticed so many people in my generation turning away from the Church. My husband grew up in the church and he also enjoyed it

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All webs are different
Reviewed in Canada on March 15, 2024
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I love the approach of making it your own and making decisions to suit your family and situation. This is not a how to book - it is so much more than that. I highly recommend it.

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Israel Church
A compassionate and practical guide
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2023
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Am I thankful for the practical tools for walking with my family through discovering and growing in faith? Yes, absolutely. But mostly I’m thankful for Miller writing the book I wish I had written for myself. It was a balm for my soul in a way that I needed deep down inside. The whole book was great, but the final chapter entitled “Jesus is Lord” and the final thoughts of the conclusion are worth the whole book. I have been challenged to think about faith, and particularly lordship, in ways I haven’t been challenged in a long time - and gently, not crushingly so. And perhaps better than that, I feel ministered to and compassionately guided toward healing from some church hurt in my own experience and I’m so grateful to God for that ministering work.

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Reviewed in Canada on April 30, 2024
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An interesting perspective. The tone throughout the book came across as the authors methods are the only ways to teach instead of here are some ways to help. Seeing as the topic was to try to help undo harmful teachings it seemed a little strong for my liking but there were still some valuable takeaways.

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