Spiritual Formation for Children with Emily Riffe | Ep 104

How are children spiritually formed?In Episode 104, Brian talks with author, educator, and homeschool mom Emily Riffe about spiritual formation for children. Emily introduces the work of Charlotte Mason, a British educator whose philosophy treated children not as empty vessels to be filled with information, but as whole persons made in the image of God.This conversation returns to the Discipleship Dilemma from Season 2: to become more like Jesus, we need to know both God and ourselves. Emily and Brian explore why that kind of double knowledge matters for children, whose hearts, habits, desires, imaginations, and ideas are being shaped from the earliest years of life.The episode challenges the assumption that spiritual formation is mostly about giving children more Bible facts, curriculum, programs, camps, or academic achievement. Those things can be good, but they are not enough. Children are formed through atmosphere, habits, relationships, nature, beauty, living books, conversation, attention, obedience, truthfulness, and the ordinary rhythms of home.Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠https://soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/