How do we perceive and experience children as part of worship and community, and how is this shaped by societal attitudes toward children alongside Quaker faith and practice? What tensions exist between our testimonies and the experience of childhood? We can talk about children the same way we talk about social witness — with an urgency and love for what we’re protecting now and for the future. How do we get there? Melinda Wenner Bradley invites us into conversation...

Melinda Wenner Bradley is a switchboard operator of Quaker religious education resources, a weaver of words and ideas, and a sower of stories.  

Her teaching ministry includes religious education consultation, workshop facilitation, storytelling, and writing for Quaker publications. Classroom teaching for 20 years (and a MA in Education) led to an interest in children’s spiritual lives and support for families in faith communities (and a seminary degree in Ministry and Leadership). She encourages Friends to shift…