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"Almost every day, one of Amy Julia's children says something or asks something that prompts her to think more carefully: ""What 'lasting' mean?"" William wonders when he hears a song about God being an everlasting God. ""If the children who died went to heaven, then why are we sad?"" Penny asks, when she passes by a funeral for a victim of the Sandy Hook shootings. ""I don't wanna get 'tized!"" says Marilee about baptism. These conversations deepen her relationships with her children, but they also deepen and refine her own understanding of what she believes, why she believes it, and what she hopes to pass along to the next generation. Small Talk is a narrative based upon these conversations. It is not a parenting guide. It does not offer prescriptive lessons about how to talk with children. Rather, it tells stories based upon the questions and statements Amy Julia's children have made about the things that make life good, the things that make life hard, and what we believe. Amy Julia moves in rough chronological order through the basic questions her kids asked when they were very young to the more intellectual and spiritual questions of later childhood. Small Talk invites other parents into these same conversations, with their children, with God, and with themselves."

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Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on faith, family, disability, and culture. She is the author of several books, including White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege. She hosts the Love Is Stronger than Fear podcast. Becker was born in Edenton, North Carolina, but has spent her adult life in the northeastern United States. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Becker now lives with her husband Peter and three children, Penny, William, and Marilee, in western Connecticut. Becker has a bi-vocational license with the Evangelical Covenant Church. She and her family are members of Salem Covenant Church. Amy Julia Becker is an award-winning writer and speaker on faith, family, disability, and culture. She is the author of several books, including White Picket Fences: Turning Towards Love in a World Divided by Privilege. She hosts the Love Is Stronger than Fear podcast. Becker was born in Edenton, North Carolina, but has spent her adult life in the northeastern United States. A graduate of Princeton University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Becker now lives with her husband Peter and three children, Penny, William, and Marilee, in western Connecticut. Becker has a bi-vocational license with the Evangelical Covenant Church. She and her family are members of Salem Covenant Church.

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