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    These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book: Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)
    These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book: Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)
    These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book: Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)
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    These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book: Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)

    By Samantha Haycock and Caren Miles

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    An easily accessible, theologically progressive, mainline Christian education resource on human sexuality for high schoolers.
    This book is the high school participant’s guide to use during each session of the These Are Our Bodies program. It is filled with prayers, scripture, and reflection questions designed to help the participant see the connection between their sexuality and their faith. With lots of space for journaling, a glossary of important terms and words are included, as well as appropriate websites for further learning or help.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChurch Publishing
    Release dateJun 1, 2017
    ISBN9781606743348
    These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book: Talking Faith & Sexuality at Church & Home (High School Participant Book)
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    Samantha Haycock

    Samantha Clare is the Episcopal lay chaplain to the University of Arkansas and coordinates young adult ministries with St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville. She holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has a passion for spreading Jesus' call for social justice. Previously the Director of Children and Youth Ministry at Christ Church, Alameda, California, she has been involved in diocesan sponsored youth events over the past decade, including summer camps, Happening, and the triennial Episcopal Youth Event. She lives in West Fork, Arkansas.

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      These Are Our Bodies, High School Participant Book - Samantha Haycock

      Copyright © 2017 Samantha Haycock and Caren Miles

      All rights reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

      Scripture quotations from the CEB used with permission. All rights reserved. Common English Bible, Copyright 2011.

      Scripture from the New Revised Standard Version Bible (NRSV) © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.

      A catalog record of this book is available from the Library of Congress.

      Church Publishing Incorporated

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      New York, NY 10016

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      Cover design by: Jennifer Kopec, 2 Pug Design

      Typeset by: Progressive Publishing Services

      ISBN-13: 978-1-60674-333-1 (pbk.)

      ISBN-13: 978-1-60674-334-8 (ebook)

      Introduction

      SESSION 1: Our INTRODUCTION

      SESSION 2: Our LANGUAGE

      SESSION 3: Our VALUE SYSTEM

      SESSION 4: Our IDENTITY

      SESSION 5: Our SELF-IMAGE

      SESSION 6: Our RELATIONSHIPS

      SESSION 7: Our HEALTH

      SESSION 8: Our DIGNITY

      SESSION 9: Our THEOLOGY

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      Welcome to These Are Our Bodies!

      We are so glad that you are in this program and that you have this Participant Book.

      This book is your guide to use during each session of the program and for you to take home after the program is over. These Are Our Bodies is about connecting your faith life with your sexuality . . . this is very important and sometimes challenging. This book will help you during the program. It has prayers, Scripture, and reflection questions designed to help you see the connection between your sexuality and your spirituality.

      By the end of our time together you will have the tools you need to be able to articulate your own Theology of Sexuality. As you take a critical look at the nature of God (theology) and relate it to your emotional, physical, and social well-being when it comes to matters of sex and sexuality, we hope you can better discern the ways in which God is calling you to be your full and authentic sexual, spiritual self.

      A big goal of These Are Our Bodies is the formation of a group that provides a safe place for participants to honestly and openly engage the content of the program. In the church, when we do our most important work, we often form what are called covenant groups. Covenant groups form to help their members deal with difficult topics and grow together.¹ In Genesis, we learn that God formed a covenant with Noah and set the rainbow in the sky as a reminder of that covenant. We hear how God called Abraham to be the father of many nations and worked through Moses to deliver the People of Israel to the Promised Land. In the New Testament, Jesus gave us a new promise—that nothing can separate us from God.

      In the New Covenant, Jesus Christ reveals our sexuality as good, refocusing relationships to mutuality, respect, compassion, and hospitality. In the words of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, Baptism and Eucharist, as sacraments of God’s covenant of creating, redeeming, and sustaining love, shapes our lives as Christians in relation to God and to God’s creation; this calls us to live with love, compassion, justice, and peace toward all creatures, friend or foe, neighbor or stranger.²

      As Episcopalians, our Baptismal Covenant³ guides us in our beliefs as well as our behavior toward neighbor and self. In These Are Our Bodies, we see covenants as promises between leaders, parents, and participants as an important part of the program.

      In the context of These Are Our Bodies, the covenants are between the facilitators, participants, and their adults. We will go over

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